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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KLJ, post: 77763, member: 1910&quot;]They did indeed, but overwhelmingly on the northern side.&nbsp; The Southern aristocracy tended to be pro-British and the British aristocracy was pro-Southern.&nbsp; Because most Irish in America in the early 1860s had left Ireland because of London&#039;s poor response to the Great Famine of the 1840s, the Irish-American community hated the British, and anything associated with them.&nbsp; Which led to easy recruitment of the Irish into northern armies.&nbsp; And Irish immigrants were in also overwhelmingly in the north.</p><p><br /></p><p>The history sofrosune offers to the production of the note is correct.&nbsp; To expand it a bit, Irish veterans of the US Civil War tried to &quot;invade&quot; Canada to force a war between the United States and the British Empire.&nbsp; Because the US had so many combat veterans, it was thought that such a war would force the British to strip other colonies - Ireland especially - of troops.&nbsp; Leaving the opportunity open for a successful revolution in Ireland.&nbsp; The plan came to nothing because cooler heads in London and Washington knew what was coming (these Irish-American groups leaked secrets like a sieve), and weren&#039;t about to let a war be caused by a few hundred Irish extremists.&nbsp; It was, however, part of the reason the Dominion of Canada was created in 1867, and why the capital was placed inland at Ottawa, rather than in the largest city (but located near the border) of Toronto.&nbsp; But, honestly, at this time, Whitehall was more concerned with Italian unification and developments in Germany towards German unification.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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