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Canadian Civil War may refer to: Canada and the American Civil War the events in the colonies of British North America during the U.S. civil war (1861–65). The rebellions of 1837–1838, two armed uprisings in what are now Quebec and Ontario; Canadian Civil War, a board game by Simulations Publications, Inc.
At the time of the American Civil War (1861–1865), Canada did not yet exist as a federated nation. Instead, British North America consisted of the Province of Canada (parts of modern southern Ontario and southern Quebec) and the separate colonies of Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, British Columbia and Vancouver Island, as well as a crown territory administered ...
It includes notable events like the Battle of Vinland, Beaver Wars, Acadian Civil War, and various Anglo-Dutch Wars, highlighting the belligerents involved and the outcomes. The second section discusses wars involving Canada since its confederation in 1867 .
Some historians contend that the rebellions in 1837 ought to be viewed in the wider context of the late-18th- and early-19th-century Atlantic Revolutions.The American Revolutionary War of 1775–1783, the French Revolution of 1789–99, the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804, the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the rebellions in Spanish America (1810–1825) were inspired by republican ideals, [1 ...
The Canadian government sent around 6,000 soldiers to aid the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War in mid-1918 in response to a British request for assistance. [ 256 ] [ 257 ] Around 4,200 soldiers of the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force (CSEF) were deployed to Vladivostok , while another Canadian contingent joined the Allied North ...
The Fenians were mostly battle-hardened American Civil War veterans, armed with weapons procured from leftover war supplies, either Enfield rifled muskets or the comparable Springfield. [14] Members of the Canadian Militia were ambushed by the Fenians at the Battle of Ridgeway in June 1866
During and after the American Civil War, several American politicians called for the annexation of Canada because of Britain's material support for the Confederacy, which one historian asserts lengthened the war by two years, mostly inflicted by British blockade runners delivering arms supplies.
In the War of 1812, the Canadas were once again a battleground, this time between the British and the relatively young United States. [33] During the war, unsuccessful attempts were made by the Americans to invade Upper Canada, after overestimating the amount of support they would receive from Canadian colonists.