Dear Bernard
I thought this video on the rather Unknown Battle of Ridgeway and the Fenian Invasions of Canada might be of interest to you and your readers. Irish Veterans of the US Civil War thought the best was to liberate Ireland was by Conquering Canada. It ended up making Canada by uniting the various different states of Canada into 1 Nation and the British giving it Dominion status, primarily because they didn’t want to lay for its defence, . Its rare for a Country to celebrate a defeat but this defeat actually helped make it as a Nation so it is
Regards
Geraint