Although this story is fictitious, parts are based on historical fact. The Fenian Brotherhood was an Irish-American organisation that menaced Great Britain from time to time from 1865 onwards. Their methods included inciting mutiny in the British Army, bombings throughout the British Isles and raids into Canada from the United States. The majority of the Fenian participants in the invasions were either Irish or men of Irish extraction who were veterans of the late American Civil War.
The Fenian invasions of Canada had one positive outcome. Made aware of their vulnerability to attack across the long border, most of the colonies of British North America, New Brunswick, the United Provinces of Canada and Lower Canada combined into the Dominion of Canada. In attempting to create the Republic
