The Fenians were an Irish Catholic Group that hoped to free Ireland. For years they had been preparing to do battle with the British Army in North America. The Fenians' idea was to tie the enemy ...
In October, 1853, he went to New-York, and there saw JOHN O'MAHONY, the head of the Fenians, twice. He went on both occasions in order to see him write, and was thus enabled to prove his ...
PROBABILITIES OF HIS RECAPTURE. From the London Times, Nov. 25. The Head Centre of all the Fenians of Ireland, Mr. JAMES STEPHENS alias Power, who was apprehended only a fortnight ago, has just ...
Had it succeeded, a 19th century attempt to force the British out of Ireland by invading Canada would be remembered as the boldest flanking maneuver in military history. As it failed, the reader ...