Fenian raids
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The Fenian raids were a series of incursions carried out by the Fenian Brotherhood, an Irish republican organization based in the United States, on military fortifications, customs posts and other targets in Canada in 1866, and again from 1870 to 1871. A number of separate incursions by the Fenian Brotherhood into Canada were undertaken to bring pressure on the British government to withdraw from Ireland, although none of these raids achieved their aims.
Depiction of the Fenian charge during the Battle of Ridgeway
John O'Mahony, a former colonel of the 69th Regiment of New York State Militia, led the first raid into British North America, in April 1866
Members of the Canadian Militia were ambushed by the Fenians at the Battle of Ridgeway in June 1866
A funeral for soldiers killed during the Fenian attacks in Canada East, 30 June 1866.
Charles Hastings Doyle
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Sir Charles Hastings Doyle was a British military officer who was the second Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia post Confederation and the first Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.
Charles Hastings Doyle by Adolphus Robert Venables, Province House (Nova Scotia), Canada