sentences:  Their presence was explicitly because of the threat of Fenian attack or terrorism, as were the large numbers of troops on the first train.During the latter part of 1866 Stephens endeavoured to raise funds in America for a fresh rising planned for the following year.He issued a bombastic proclamation in America announcing an imminent general rising in Ireland; but he was himself soon afterwards deposed by his confederates, among whom dissension had broken out.