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Vermont (Vermont, United States) (search for this): entry hunters-lodges
Niagara River (New York, United States) (search for this): entry hunters-lodges
Oswego (New York, United States) (search for this): entry hunters-lodges
Canada (Canada) (search for this): entry hunters-lodges
Hunters' Lodges.
When the insurrection broke out in Canada in 1837, the Americans strongly sympathized with the insurgents, regarding them as patriots seeking p his sympathy was most vehement along the frontier between the United States and Canada.
Men banded in secret organizations with a view to give material aid to the in nsselaer, who took possession of Navy Island in the Niagara River, belonging to Canada, or William Johnson, who was called the Pirate of the thousand Islands, and was cret organizations were called Hunters' Lodges.
Among their members were many Canadian refugees, and William Lyon Mackenzie, the chief agitator in Upper Canada, who Upper Canada, who had been driven from the province, organized an executive committee in Buffalo, N. Y., for the purpose of directing the invasion of Canada.
These Hunters' Lodges orgCanada.
These Hunters' Lodges organized invading parties at Detroit, Sandusky, Oswego, and Watertown, in northern New York, and in Vermont.
At one time, Van Rensselaer and Johnson had under them abo
Detroit (Michigan, United States) (search for this): entry hunters-lodges
Sandusky, Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): entry hunters-lodges
Navy Island (Canada) (search for this): entry hunters-lodges
Hunters' Lodges.
When the insurrection broke out in Canada in 1837, the Americans strongly sympathized with the insurgents, regarding them as patriots seeking political freedom.
This sympathy was most vehement along the frontier between the United States and Canada.
Men banded in secret organizations with a view to give material aid to the insurgents, and this was given pretty freely by bodies of excitable citizens, led by such men as Van Rensselaer, who took possession of Navy Island in the Niagara River, belonging to Canada, or William Johnson, who was called the Pirate of the thousand Islands, and was outlawed by the governments of the United States and Great Britain.
These secret organizations were called Hunters' Lodges.
Among their members were many Canadian refugees, and William Lyon Mackenzie, the chief agitator in Upper Canada, who had been driven from the province, organized an executive committee in Buffalo, N. Y., for the purpose of directing the invasion of Cana
Watertown (New York, United States) (search for this): entry hunters-lodges
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry hunters-lodges
Kingston, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): entry hunters-lodges