In The Midst Of Alarms

THE FORGOTTEN INVASIONS The country is Canada. The year is 1866 the yearafter the end of the American Civil War. The scene the ridge road inWelland County Ontar... » 

THE FORGOTTEN INVASIONS The country is Canada. The year is 1866 the yearafter the end of the American Civil War. The scene the ridge road inWelland County Ontario a dozen miles from Fort Erie. A New York journalisthas in need of a rest is joined by an old schoolmate a professor in UniversityCollege Toronto. They set out to find a camping place meet two agreeableCanadian girls and find romance adventure and the remarkable rusticcharacters of Ontario. They also find a forgotten invasion. In 1866groups of Irish Americans the Fenians crossed the Canadian Border toattack British troops at British forts to protest British rule of Ireland. Theycalled themselves the IRA the Irish Republican Army. Here is a novel ofcharm humor and romance by a remarkable writer illumining important historylost in the mists of Time. «