The Ship Catalpa Arrives in U.S. With Irish Fenian Prisoners Rescued From Australia

August 19, 1876

The ship Catalpa arrives in U.S. with Irish Fenian prisoners rescued from Australia

Ireland

Seven Scots, including John Stuart Forbes, were in the US, 7th Cavalry with General Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

The Irish Republican Brotherhood Supreme Council withdraws its support from the Home Rule movement