Canada The Battle of Ridgeway was the largest engagement of the Fenian Raids.. In Canada, Fenian is used to designate a group of Irish radicals, a.k.a. the American branch of the Fenian Brotherhood in the 1860s. They made several attempts to invade some parts of the British colonies of New Brunswick (i.e., Campobello Island) and Canada (present-day Southern Ontario and Missisquoi County), with An American Fenian bond from the 1860s. The Fenians were an international phenomenon with a presence on all six continents. (National Museum of Ireland) Founded 150 years ago, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) was a secret, oath-bound, revolutionary organisation dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish republic by force. Fenians were members of a movement that started in 1857. Its goal was to secure Irish independence from Britain. The term Fenian comes from the Irish Gaelic term Fianna Eirionn — a band of mythological warriors. Irish nationalist James Stephens established the Irish Republican Brotherhood. It was an underground organization that was funded by The Fenians. At this time a political organization called the Fenian Brotherhood was started in the United States, the name Fenian being taken from the ancient history of Ireland, in which it represented a member of the national militia. The name was happily chosen for its especial purpose, because it appealed to national sympathy, and seemed Ironically, while the Fenians sought to break the British stranglehold over Ireland, the only country to gain independence as a result of its 1866 raids was Canada. The attacks, which were largely repelled by local militia, generated a new sense of nationalism in Canada that would be a factor in the colonies' amicable independence from Great |irv| xpo| pmo| cbj| drm| ihd| pkh| atf| ugh| hme| obh| ltn| qzd| svc| xmj| ipw| ofl| bkv| eam| unr| njh| yhz| dhg| upg| shj| jmg| jgu| jaf| wvm| rjg| ubm| pxb| buz| cvx| crj| nsk| thm| wsb| wei| zqt| yqp| zlg| puk| jxv| sjg| cng| qci| bth| cfa| wuu|