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_ THE END _ . -LSB- 1 -RSB- Although we are under the impression that others of these gentlemen than those designated belong to the I.R.A. yet we are unable to give their military rank , from the fact of our not being able , at the time of our writing , to obtain proper intelligence on the subject . By the Army of the Irish Republic , under General O'NEILL , June , 1866 . About midnight , on the 31st May , the men commenced moving from Buffalo to Lower Black Rock , about three miles down the river , and at 3:30 A.M. , on the 1st of June , all of the men , with the arms and ammunition , were on board four canal boats , and towed across the Niagara River , to a point on the Canadian side called Waterloo , and at 4 o'clock A.M. , the Irish flag was planted on British soil , by Colonel Starr , who had command of the first two boats . On landing , O'Neill immediately ordered the telegraph wires leading from the town to be cut down ; and sent a party to destroy the railroad bridge leading to Port Colborne . Colonel Starr , in command of the Kentucky and Indiana troops , proceeded through the town of Fort Erie to the old Fort , some three miles distant up the river , and occupied it for a short time , hoisting the Irish flag . O'Neill then waited on the Reeve of Fort Erie , and requested him to see some of the citizens of the place , and have them furnish rations for the men , at the same time assuring him that no depredations on the citizens would be permitted , as he had come to drive out British authority from the soil , and not for the purpose of pillaging the citizens .