title: Transnational Revolutionaries: The Fenian Invasion of Canada, 1866 (Reimagining Ireland)
author: David Doolin
description: David Doolin holds a PhD from the University of Hawaii at Mnoa and is currently an occasional lecturer and tutor at University College Dublin, Maynooth University and the American College, Dublin. He previously taught American history and American studies courses at the University of Hawaii, MCPHS University Boston, and Wheelock College and Endicott College in Massachusetts.
zlib_text: # TROUBLOUS TIMES IN CANADA
  
  ##### A HISTORY OF THE FENIAN RAIDS OF 1866 AND 1870
  
  BY CAPT. JOHN A. MACDONALD (A Veteran of 1866 and 1870)
  
  Troublous Times in Canada.
  
  ### TABLE OF CONTENTS.
  
  Preface.
  
  ##### CHAPTER I.—Unhappy, Ireland Seething in Sedition—The Fenian
  Brotherhood—Hatching the Plot—The Movement of '65—A Split in the Fenian Camp.
  
  ##### CHAPTER II.—The Fenian Convention at Cincinnati—The Birth of the Irish
  Republic—"On to Canada"—Gen. Sweeny's Programme.
  
  ##### CHAPTER III.—The First Alarm—Canadian Volunteers Promptly Respond to the
  Call of Duty—The Campo Bello Fizzle—Fenians Gather on the Border—Operations on
  the Niagara Frontier.
  
  ##### CHAPTER IV.—The Landing in Canada—Preliminary Operations of the Fenian
  Forces Near Fort Erie—Advance into the Interior.
  
  ##### CHAPTER V.—The Second Alarm—Grand Uprising of the Canadian
  People—Departure of Troops for the Front—Gen. Napier's Plan of Campaign—List
  of the Various Corps Called out for Active Service.
  
  ##### CHAPTER VI.—The B