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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: NightOwl who wrote (126415)	3/17/2004 5:37:49 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 281500

NightOwl, Yes, some future Americans were there. The Joshua Doan who got hung by the British is one of my distant relatives, and his widow moved to the U.S. My great-grandfather was just a boy at the time, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1855. I've had a lot of fun with genealogy, and I hope you can track down those roots some day. (It helps if your ancestors have unusual names, so you can find them with Google.) Here's some more historical background: During the U.S. Civil War the Confederates staged a raid from Canada into Vermont... ST. ALBANS RAID The Civil War entered Vermont, Oct. 19, 1864, in the northern-most engagement of the war. vermontcivilwar.org The event that seems to have finally pushed the Canadians to separate from Britain was the Fenian Raids into Canada after the U.S. Civil War... The Fenian Raid(s) of Upper and Lower Canada doyle.com.au