Under the starry flag : how a band of Irish Americans joined the Fenian revolt and sparked a crisis over citizenship /
"In 1867 forty Irish-Americans sailed for Ireland to fight against British rule. Claiming that emigrants to America remained British citizens, authorities arrested the men for treason, sparking a crisis and trial that dragged the U.S. and Britain to the brink of war. Lucy Salyer recounts this g...
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2018.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |