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Subject: Excerpt Of History
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 17:20:57 EDT
" Six of the then, seventeen, American States voted against going to war
with Great Britain in 1812. Those that voted against had nothing to gain in
terms of territory in the event of American success."
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" The heroine of the War of 1812 was Massachusetts born Laura Secord who
then resided on the Niagara Peninsula. She walked 20 miles to warn the Canadians
of a surprise attack my the Americans."
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"The first Canadian born novelist was John Richardson, a veteran of the War
of 1812. His most famous novel was, Wacousta."
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" The Fennian Brotherhood, founded in the US in 1858, was a group of
approximately 10,000 Irish-Americans, many veterans of the Civil War, whose goal was
to achieve Irish independence through attacking British North America."
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" The Fennians first raid was April 10, 1865, when they captured Campobello
Island, New Brunswick, their last occurred Oct 5, 1871 when Fennian troops
occupied Pembina, Manitoba."
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"Louis Riel refused to join the Fennians."
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"Timothy O'Hea was the only Victoria Cross winner on Canadian soil, in 1866"
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