Holland pressed on, launching his first prototype Holland I in 1878. His second effort was named the Fenian Ram after the Fenian Brotherhood, an Irish independence group that financed its building.

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It’s not often that we get to see fantastic re-enactments of events that once took place in this region… in Buffalo. The reason for that is because we lost our own fort – Fort Porter.