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In this work, care has been token to preserve only the romance of truth, discarding apocryphal embelliNhnirnts. Substantial accuracy can b« vouched for, although some details will probably require correction from sources not' yet available.. fi CHAITER I. viva LA NATfON L tlHUU. On thti I7th n( KUrch, 18H6, • rumor, designedly iiUrted, t»n tbrouKli the half-breed aettleiiMnta scattered around the little almrchn My lUlr Hlr If it Ih ihissiIiIi'h ti> pot hia Horaa inn wUl niouch blal|j<> you" " Pr6rie du CIicvhI BInne MonsIeiiT, Je vnus Hiivoia par In earann da Ua VriM^s 18 pHir da Bouilltpr a £1,llii Mnu- aiour 'Jal trouveH dun torpau umiH J'ataut |>eur la'nfnna a&u d« retirez lu toreau vous pourex alivulyer lar Kana pur oxavier fria^a. J« aula vntre aervlteur Lh Kisl le 9 decembra 1863," H« was a relative and prot^g^ of H' race Aitshbiahop Taohd, of St. ^ Boniface, who was destined to be his protector in manhood as in boyhood. , He did not enter the priesthood, but studied law without much success in J the oiBce of the Hon. Mr. Laitamme, f and eventually returned tu the North- West, a rather moody youth, of a melan- choly turn of mind, full of Byronio megrims about being uncom{ rehended, but with religious tendencies as a re- sult of his training. He had made little improsaion upon his associates, and it lii' - was with wonder they hoard, in 1869, that he was the leader of the rebellious half-bieeds of the Red River valley. His claim at that time, and that of the small native population whom he led, waa that they were not in febellion, but were, as the natural owners of the land, bound to resist invasion from a government which had taken over their terri- tory ^ pursuance of an agreement with a trading company, to which their consent was nut asked and in whicR their righta of property and of sell IMI ^km^ TIIK niEL RKnF.LTJON OF IfiflS. K»v«rnin«nt w«r«ontircly ignored. Kiel'ii ref;iin« wa«, for » time, cliaraeli'rizwl )>y iinKlwatinn on well M unvTKy, Ijut tlio l)riiti.l nlayintfuf TliDiiiaH Hcott ali«ii»ted the nyin|>atlii™i>f tin' IxttiT 1>C(>- plo, and wlicn tlie cxiKi^litinn niiili-r O(ilont!l Wi.lwiluy for tlio twlaliliiiliincnt of tlir Can^uiinn antliority niacliod Kort ( iarry, Kiil liml Hi'il iw a lonnly fugitive. Hi« iKwitidn sut a fiiniic'i- |iri)- Ug6 of a liigli ocoleaiaiitic may liavu hiul kuwiu- thing t<> do with the pniiiiincncu acuorded liiiii by h'u fellowa, and the a9. The Louis Kiel who, during the fall and winter of 1884, addressed meetings at the half-breed settlements through- out the North-West, waa a rather shabby man, with a neglected beard and a reatloas eye, whose apprehensive glances gave him a hunted aspect. He api>eared twenty yeara older than a man of forty-one years. Ho was now a sort of pro- fessional rebel, anxious to make capital out of his talent for stirring up disaffection. At first he spoke only of obtaining a recogni- tion of the claims of the half-breeds, and redress of their grievances by constitutional methods. In the month of September, at a public meeting at St. Laurent, he submitted a Bill of Rights, which waa unanimously agreed to, and which, it was under8td, was to be for- warded to the Government at Ottawa. The list of claims is a remarkable one. It reveala clearly that the men who drew'them up had rebellion in view, and that they were (xwaeased of a good deal of political akill and aagacity. The claiii.c in effect were : (1) The subdiviaion into pro- vinces of the North-West Territories ; (2) the half-breeds to receive the same grants and other advantages as the Manitoba half-breeds; (3) liatents to be issued at once to the colonists in posaoasion ; (4) the saleof half amillion acres of dominion lands, thn proceeds to Iki applied to the fKtabliHhnieiit in tlin half-breed settlements of kcIiihiIh, hoHpitalx, and such-likn inKtitutions, and to the ivinipinent of the [KKirer lialflireeda with MM'dKraiu and iiiipli iiiciitH ; (Ti) the reser- vation of H hundred townshipa of nwaiep land for distribution among the children of half- brvuUs during the next one hundred and twenty LOUIS RIEL, 1884. years ; (0) a grant of at lesjat one thousand dol- lars for the maintenance of an institution, to be conducted by the nuns in each half-breed settle- ment ; and (7) better provision for the support of the Indiana. This document was a bold bid for the support of all peoples and powers in the North-West. The English settlers wanted political rights; these were appealed for in the first clauses. Many of these regarded the agitation at the beginning with favcr ; as likely to secure the redress of real grievancea. Kiel expected their support and complained bitterly that they deserted as amm oa decisive action was called for. They aaw, however, that the half-breeds had determined to rebel, and took no part in the movement. The demand for subsidies for schoola and nunneries was a bid for the support of the church. " The priests were for me and they were against me," said RieL " They are against me now, not because I rebelled, but because I did not succeed in helping them." The half-breeds to the third and fourth genera- tion were to be provided for if these demands were enforced. The loat demand is significant, as it reveals the fact that from the first an Indian rising in support of the half-breed rebel- lion was counted upon. That Riel intended to take part in actual rebellion himself is more than doubtful. The story was that the people, when he tried to depart, retained his services with a pistol. When asked why he fought, Riel declared "The people compelled me to fight I told them last winter that our Bill of Rights had done its work ; they would get all that was :jiat in due time. They aaid I could not go away ; the matter waa stirred up and I must fight it out." There is reason for doubting the sincerity of his belief that the bill " had dse was to create trouble in the lio|io that ho would bo bribed, as he was in 1870, to leave the country. Sir John Macdonald, the Premier, declared in Parliament that the Ciovornment had never received the Bill of Rights, and he also stated that Riel hod made an offer to the Government to leave the country for 9(>,000, the same amount which he had received in 187t). The men whom he had stirred up to rebellion were, howi.Tcr, in thorough earnest. The Metis (pronounce this name Meteece) - are the descendants of those energetic and adventurous voya- genra, trappers and Hudson's Bay employees, who made their way amid great difliculties and dangers to a country then out of the world ; with the blood of theae there mingled in their veins that of probably the finest dark race in the world. Unlike other mixed races the Metis are atrong in phyaique and strong in mind, and are quite able to hold their own with the pure white in the race of life. A Mei>s, inheriting the inorgiea of iiany races, is to-day the Premier of the conatitutional government of Manitoba. These bold, energetic men, long accus- tomed to provide for and pro- tect themselves and their fami- lies amid exciting scenes, were restive under the monotony of farm life to which they had been driven by the disappearance of the buffalo and of fur animala, and by the construction of railways which rendered " freighting " unnecessary. When their rights to the land were not recog- nized, when the surveyors threatened to square their lane-like farms into quarter scctiims, they grew pugnacious. Bred among territorial feuds, they were not reluctant >K-* to what was their former condition, and, insane as it looks to people with a know- ledge of the reaources of a Government like that of the Dominion, were ready to attempt by force to overthrow the authority of the Canadian Government in the North-Weat. Riel had inapired them with a belief in hia power to bring the Metis of the United States and the Indians of the whole West to his aid. He probably also made prodigal promises of Fenian assistance. He adopted the rdle of a religious mystic, which probably came naturally enough to a man of his tonn>erainent and training, and by mysterious and incoherent utterances appealed to the superstitious element which is naturally strong in the wanderer in the wilds. From among men such as these, and of this temper, the Provisional Government waa formed on that St. Patrick's Day. The Adjutant-General, Gabriel Dumont, was an old buffalo hunter and Indian fighter who had fought on both sides of the line, and had taken more human lives, if not scal.^s, than any other man on the prairie. Tlie story goes that at a sun-dance or a moon-dance, or some otlier festival of the BUokfeet, the braves were, according to custom, boasting of their individual prowess, when Dumont, uninvited, jumped into thoir midst and, flourishing his rifle, exclaimed THK RlKIi REBELLION OF 18fW. ra " I have killed twenty lilockfeet." Hih bravado, true enough, iwrhapR, wnn no daring that it won the admiration iniitoad of tho natural vengeance of hie enemies. If )i« planned the defenco of Batoche he waa not only a courngeouii Imt a iikilful leadnr with a natural geniuB for en- gineering. To tho nieiiilMini of Riel'H Council that sago gavn the title of ernviiiea, which ho explainod with Bomo littln pridn, probably, in hielearning, to have Iwnn adapted from two Latin wordHCJC "frMin,"ancl»reji ":i Hock," (»ic) and waa meant to signify that none claiuiod any individ- ual authority, and thin word was signed to all official documents. Besides Dumont, they were F. Jackson, President's Secretary ; Jean- Bap- tiste Boucher, Donald Ross, Pierre Henri, Moise Ouellette, Damase Carriere, Uavid Tourand, Pierre (iuardepuy, Allwrt Monkman, A. Jobin, Bonnet Blanc (White Cap), Chief of the Sioux ; Beardy, Chief of the Crees ; Chas. Trottier, Bass Bull, from Battle River ; N. Delorme, B. Parentpau, K. Champagne ; Fhillipe Oaruot, Secretary of tho Council ; H. Dumas ; Octave Regnier, Assistant Secretary of the Council; Jiweph (Jondul, Lunitonant of Guards; Antoino Champai?iie, A. Turgeon, Captain of the Horse; J. Paronteau, replaced by M. Richelieu ; N. Carrier, Alex. Lobeau, Barez, tho Sioux interpreter, M. Gareau and ThoB. Vermett, Messenger of the Council. MAJOR L. N. F. CBOZIER, auperintendeDl of the Narth-We«t Mounted Pollee. CHAPTER II. THB nUOK LAKE riOHT. The Provisional Government acted with promptitude. On the 18th of March, Mr. Lash, the Indian agent at Duck Lake, and hi9 interpreter were made prisoners, aa well as other loyalists and freighters passing throogh to Prince Albert. At midnight the telegraph line waa cut south of Duck Lake, the wire going wide in the middle of an important telegram about tho state of affairs. All loyalists' ■tores in the settlements were taken over by Kiel's Government, and on the eveninjr of Muvh 26lh the Duck Lake Post waa captured, vortunity to plunder, the Hupiiort of his warriors was assured. Tho officers of tho Mounted Police knew that trouble was brewing among the half-breeds of St. Laurent, and Major Crozior with a forco of seventy-five men had occupied Fort Carle- ton, an old Hudson's Bay post on tho North Saskatchewan, about twelve miles west of Duck Lake, to watch tho half-breeds. With a forco of sixty Moimted Policemen and forty volun- teers from Prince Albert, whom he had sent for. Major Crozier started on the morning of the 26th March to bring away the Goveni- mont stores and other property which were at Duck Lake. Major Crozier, who had served on the force for twelve years, and had snuffed out two or three incipient Indian wars, had proved himself a brave, prompt, and resolute man. When near Beardy's reserve, and about two miles from Duck Lake, a number of armed men were discovered in a eoulit, or ravine lightly fringed with poplars, through which the trail led. A white flag was flying, and while Major Crozier and his interpreter, Mackay, went forward to call upon the men to sur- render their arms, the police and volunteers, who had been brought in sleighs, alighted and commenced extending in a skirmishing line. Crozier's demand was met by the question from Gabriel Dumont, who led the rebels : "Is it to bo a fight ?" Major Crozier believing that the rebels were about to fire upon his men, ordered his force to commence firing. Tho rebels had already occupied two houses, not visible from the rood, and from these, aa well aa from tho coulee, they fired upon tho force. While tho Mounted Police, with the aid of a seven-pound gun, were trying to dislodge the rebels in the coulee, the Prince Albert volunteers advanced, firing upon those in the house. The volunteers lost heavily and failed of their purpose. The fight went on at short range for half an hour, when the Mounted Police had expended all their ammunition, the gun having become useless after a few rounds. Seeing that the rebels were creeping around by the edges of the coul^, and that his men were in danger of being outflanked and hemmed in by a greater number. Major Crozier gave the order to retreat, which was car- ried out, the little force leaving their dead on the field but taking with them their useless gun and the wounded. In that engagement of half an hour, out of one hundred police and volunteers, fourteen were killed and nine severely wounded. Eleven of the killed were out of the forty Prince Albert volunteers. The names of the patriotic dead, the first on the death-roll of this war, were: Captain John Morton, Wm. Napier, James Blakely, Skeffington C. Elliot, Robert Middleton, D. McPhail, Charles Hewit, Joseph Anderson, D. Mackenzie, Chas. Pago, and Alexander Fisher, civilians, and constables T. J. Gibson, Garretty and J. P. Arnold of tho Mounted Police force. The class of settlers in the Canadian North-West may be guessed from the fact that of the eleven civilians killed one was the son of a Judge, and cousin of the leader of the Opposition in the Dominion Parlia- ment, one was a nephew of Sir Francis Hincka, a former Canadian Premier and Governor of the Windward Isles, one was a son of Sir Charles Napier, and one a nephew of ' the celebrated Nova Scotian Statesman, the BEARDY, Chief of thp Uiicli Lako lisiiil. Hon. Joseph llowo. On their way back to Fort Carleton Major Crozier and his decimated force were overtaken ju«t at tho gates of tho stockade by Colonel Irvine, who had arrived from Qu'Appelle with tlio long looked for rein- forcement of one hundred niMiuited |>olicomen. Fort Carleton was a fort only in name, having no fortification but a stockade, and iMsing in a valley it was untenable, Botiides it was supposed the whole forco was needed to protect the town of Prince Alliert and tlio scttler.s who had sought refuge there. It was dccidtd to abandon the place, and while tliis was being done tho wooden houses took fire and it waa with difficulty tho wounded men were saved, Tho train of sleighs filled with the frightened families of settlers, and the severely wounded men, and guarded by troops, some of whom were suffering acutely from a sense of defeat, turned northeastward to traverse forty miles of country presumably swarming with victorious rebels. The news of the evacuation of tho fort was received about two weeks before the news of their safe arrival at Prince Albert. The suspense during that inter- val was the most painful of many gloomy |)eriods during the war. Prince Albert with three hun- dred amied men was safe from attack, but, with its greatly augmented population, fears were entertained of tho provisions running out before it waa relieved. At tho Duck I^ko engagement the rel>ers force numbere<»> f<>r tliii Meti« Dktiuii and hwJ furiiiuUtod the (ullowiiig creod : " Wi! Iwllivp all lHille«r» nnnitltuU" tho Irui- ilmrrh. Wr' iio ii.ii i»ii.'vi^ III tho iiirniiiMiity or till' ro)>« w« tn'llnVH In till' lij«|ilr«tliiii of llic Holy Hrripliinaainltho MKlit or iviry mall lo Irani tliii trilthn tiny rontaln. Wi! IhIii'Vi- 111 a rrKiil«tlir onlalnid iiiliii»lry. Wp l«liev(i In a r.iriii of ilmnh KoviTiiliifiit. iinfirrinit tliii I'plx'o- t«l. WdtKillorollKirniaMMij OihI. Wi' (iruy to (ioil. to CliMul, to Mary, lo the aalilta. Wo Iwlluvii In tlio Ami aalvatloii of all iiivn," Rid li»d |irocl»imed liiiiiwilf to l>o "KliMwlio WM til ciimii and c)mnK« uH tliit)Kit,"aiid to begin with ha changed Saturday intu Sunday. paring fur a aiogo, and tliat night waa paiied under arnia. The nnit day the Indiana made their np|>oaranco on tho a supply their waiitn by plunder if thoro is any chance of aticceaa. Tho ro- aervea of the atrongeHt and moat warlike tribes were, however, within easy strik- ing diatance of the Canadian I'acifia Railway, and tho chief a, knowing how swiftly a blow could be struck against them, curbed tho reatlesa young bravea, and wroto characteristically eloquent letters, alleging their perfect loyalty to tho Govornniont, which they trananiitted by telegraph. Their loyalty waa confirmed, doubtless, by gon- cruua gifts of extra food and tobacco. One hundred and eighty miles north of the railway, at the junction of the Battle and North Saskatchewan rivers, is tho town of Battle- ford, within a compoas of thirty mile* of which were the reserves of large bands of Croo and Stoney Indians, numbering in all over two thousand. The abandon- ment, by the Mounted Police, of Fort Carleton, which lies between Battloford and Riel'a head-quarters at Batoche, allowed free intercourse between him and these Indians who could not resist a proapect of plunder and tho war-path. On the night of the 29th March the Indiana were reported to be advancing upon Battleford, and some three hundred settlera and townspeople thronged into the atookade at Battleford, which is on the point formed by the jimetion of the Battle River with the North Saskatchewan. Col. Morris, who waa in com- mand of the Mounted Police poat and the local company, into which all the able-bodied men enrolled themaelvee, had already aet liu foroe to work buikUng baitioni and pre- left Battleford on the 29th, he waa in conatant danger. U|ion the aame night that Applegarth wai4 attacked, the Stoneya of Mos({uito'a band, on the reaerve adjoining Red Phoaaant's, mur- dered their farm instructor, Payne, who, two days before, had been aaaured of their loyalty. The united banda, numbering about one hun- dred fighting men, joined Poundmaker, and soon an army of five or aix hundred Indiana lay around that place. The Indians made no attack «I«on the barracks, which, aituatod on a high bluff on the river aide, were as impregnable to an Indian force without cannon aa tho liock of Uibraltar, but in trying to plunder that inrtof the town nearest the fort they I frequently came within range of the Bevon-|)ounder gun, and it waa used vigorously and with effect u|>on several > : . oooaaiona. The period of the siege waa anxious but com- paratively uneventful save for the occasional arrest of a a half-breed for one offence or another, and for the adventures of the scouts who attempted to communi- cate with the surrounding poets. RED PHEASANT. would be murdered if he did not at once get away. The Indian told him also that Battle- ford was taken, and his only hope of escape waa to follow the trail to Swift Current, a atation on the Canadian Pacific railway one hundred and seventy miles distant Applegarth put his wife and child into a buckboard waggon, and taking advantage of a moment when the Indiana were plundering the atores, started on his long drive for life, unobserved. He had not gone far before the Indiana were after him, and all one desper- ate night he dodged them from coulte to ooul^ and for two daya more, until he had caught up to Judge Rouleau's party of refugee*, who had CHAPTER IV. THK FBOa LAK8 HASSAOBI. • At almost the aame time •a the outbreak at Battle- ford, about a hundred and fifty milea to the west, there ooourred a aeriea of incidents without parallol in the hia- tory of Canada. Fort I'itt, station of the Mounted Pol- ice, on the north bank of th» North Saskatchewan, about one hundred and twenty miles to the north-west of Battleford, was hold by • garrison of some twenty men, under the command of Captain Dickens, a son of the great noveliat, who had come to Canada and become an Inspector in the force. Thirty miles to the north- west of this again was the Indian station and mission ' of Frog Lake, situated on the reserves of a couple of Indians who were under the influence of that suspicious and moody chief. Big Bear. On the 80th of March news of the Duck Lake fight was received by Mr. T. T. Quinn, the Indian agent at Frog Lake. The option was given him by Inspector Dickens of coming to Fort Pitt with all the people at Frog Lake, or of being joined by the garriaon of Fort Pitt. A Coim- cil of war was held, and it was decided that the squad of police at Frog Lake, only seven men, should be sent away at once, as, while too few to protect the people in case of an attack, their pre- sence irritated the Indiana. The people believed they would be safe if the police were gone, and they hurried their departure. Aa the police left they heard the whoop of tho war-daaona in Big ^ THK RIKT, RKRKLMON OP IRWi. ^ FORT PITT. 1, RamokB, held by poline. S, Fur Store, held by poUoe. S, Hudson's Bay Honse, held by Hudson Bay men. 6, Trails from Frog Lake, OTer hills, by which scouts came. 7, RWer Banii (North Baskatchewati) 900 ynr<1s froDi fort, which Indians wore encamped. 10, Spot where Ijoaeby and his horse were shot, and whence he ran to the fort. 11, rirer by which police retreated. A, site of Bastion, destroyed by police. ' B,«8ito of Stables, destroyed by police. Bear's camp. Before dawn of the following day, the dancora, whom the Mounted Police while de- parting had heard whooping, all Indians of Big Bear's band of plain Crees came in a body to the Indian agency and entered it. T. P. Quinn, the agent, was a Sioux half-breed, who, with his cousin Harry Quinn, had passed through all the horrors of the Minnesota massacre, and although married to a Cree woman was hated by the Indians. Bad Child, a son of Big Bear, and another rushed upstairs with the avowed pur- pose of shooting the agent in his bed, but his brother-in-law, Loveman, followed them and prevented the crime by throwing himself in front of the levelled 6re-arms. These two went down-stairs again and the place was ransacked, the Indians contenting themselves with the 6re- arms in the office and the horses in the stable, however. Travelling Spirit, one of the band, came to the foot of the stairs, after an interval, and called to Quinn, " Man-who-speaks-Sioux, come down." Loveman tried to prevent his brother-in-law from showing himself, but Quinn went down. He was at once forced to go to the hunse of Delaney, the farm instructor, where the Indians wore gathering together all the whites at the post. Travelling Spirit, Big Bear's chief councillor, with a small party wont to the Hudson's Bay store, where they found Mr. W. B. Cameron, the agent who was in charge, already up. Bad Child went into the house alone and demanded from Cameron all the am- munition in the store. The Mounted Police had taken nearly all the fixed ammunition and a keg of powder to Fort Pitt, so that Mr. Cameron, at the muzzles of loaded guns, made no difficulty about giving up the little that remained, and, accompanied by the greater part of the band, he went to the store and gave it tu them. While he was getting it out for them Big Bear came in and ordered the Indians not to touch anything but to ask Cameron for what they wanted. Several preferred requests for small articles, which were given them, and all went out quietly. Cameron followed to see what they were going to do, and Travelling Spirit rushed up to him as I, ProTlslon Store, held by police. B, Unoccupied Hnniies, 8, Brush on hill, SOO yanli bacic of fort. 9, liills Uhlnd Spot where Cowan fell, 13, Ploushcd LamL 13, Trail to soon as ho came out and forced him to accom- pany him to the Indian Agency, where nearly all the white men of the settlement had been brought from Delaney's house. Travelling Spirit went up to tho agent, Quinn, and demanded : "I want to know who is the chief of the whites in this country. Is it tho governor of tlie Hudson's Boy ComiMiny or who ?" Quinn, who did not take the matter at all seriously, answered, ' ' There is a man at Ottawa calljd Sir John A. Macdonald who is the head of affairs. " "Give us beef !" yelled a number of tho Indians, and upon the rest taking up the cry Quinn asked Delaney if he could not give them an ox. Delaney said he had one or two, and most of tho Indians made off to secure the animals. So convinced were the little band that the Indians would commit no serious excesses, that they appear to have had no serious mis- givings whatever. The two pnests. Fathers Fafard and Marchand, men who had devoted their lives to the Indians, went to their little THK RIEIi RKBRLLION OF IfWS. niil Ihfl Indi»n, with • MOUNTED POLICEMAN COWAN, Klllm\ diirlnu the Fort Tlti fngRgemont. ohuroh, and callini; their flock tngetlier began tli« ei'li'liralion cif thcHcrvicKof Ihoday, It wah GimhI Friday, the 3rd nf April, and none dreaniiit that the Kaittor nun would rine for but few among them. The Indiana went to the church almost in a body, but they took their |iri«onerB, every white in the iiettlement except Cameron and the factor's wife, Mrs. Simpson, with them. VVith the r arms in their hands the Indians knelt through the service, but Big Bear and Miserable Man stood on each side of the door. Travelling Sjiirit did not go in with the rest, but after some time discovered Cameron trading with some Indians at the store, and forced him to go to the church. This man, who apiwared to be |H>B8essed by a fiend, entered the church with his war baton his head, his face painted yellow, and the loaded gun with which he had already threatened several lives, in his hand. Yet, he too, partly knelt in the alsla After the service the Fathers addressed the Indiana warning and commanding them not to commit outrages or excesses. The Indians then took the most of the white people to Uelanoy's, and Cameron went quietly back to his quarters and ate his breakfast as if nil wore well. Two Indians, Yellow Bear and a Frog Lake Indian, went with him more as guests than guards. Big Bear himself went into the factor's house to Mrs. Bimpson, who had not been disturbed, and a short interval of quiet followed. Travelling Spirit broke in u|K>n this, by ordering all the whites to go to the Indian camp, and those who had remained in Delaney's house were brought out and forced to start along the trail. Thomas Quinn, the Indian Agent, paid no attention to this order, but continued a conversation with Charles Gouin, a half-breed carpenter, in front Pritchard's house. Travelling Spirit came up to him and said. " You have a hard head. " When you say no, you mean no, and stick to "it. Now, if you love your life, you will do " what I say. Go to our camp." Qumn, a man of magnificent physique, of great determination and courage, and filled, moreover, with all the oontempt which his Siooz blood naturally gave him for the Crees, answered nonchalantly the threat of the savage by saying, •' Why ibould Igor "Never mind," threatening geBture. " I will not go," said the undaunted agent. "I tell you, go I" yullul the savage, and lift- ing hin gun, he shot (juinn through the head, so that he fell dead. O. (iiiuin, who had turned Inward the Indian camp while Travelling H|iirit won siHiaking to (juinn, was shot and killed iniiiiediately by The Worm. The little party of white men and w nnien who had been gathereil in Ueluney's had gone but a short distance when the first shot was fired. At the sound of the fatal signal, Iiittle Bear shot the old Hootch mason, Willis- croft, through the head. Young Harry Quinn, who was at the rear of the little )iarty, arty of the Indians rushed at Delaney, and knocked down Father Fafard, who threw himself in front of the doomed farm instructor. Bareneck shot Delaney, and then turning shot the priest as he lay upon the ground. Travelling Spirit, as thirsty for blood as a |>anther, followed by The Worm and other Indians, rushed up at this moment, and Travelling Spirit shot down Father Marchand, who had thrown him- self upon the Indians single-handed and unarmed when he saw his fellow- missionary shot. The ■ Man - Who- Wins then shot and killed Delaney and ako Father Fafard, who, terribly wounded, lay writhing ujun the snow. Gowanlock and his wife, who stood hand in hand, were a little far- ther ahead on the trail than the first group, and The-Wonn, leav- ing his master in crime to deal with the larger party, ran forward and shot Gowanlock through the body. He fell into the arms of his yoimg wife and died there. Little Bear shot Gilchrist dead, but missed Diel, who tore his way through the band and made off. He outran all pursuit, but a number of the In- dians were by this time mounted on stolen hones, and he was run down and murdered after a long chase. Big Bear was still with Mrs, Simpson when the shoot- ing commenced, and he ran out shouting "atop." Cameron, was trading with Mia- er»U« M»n who^ had brought him an order for a blanket signed by (juinn, when the first nli"t was tired, and iKitli ran out of the store. Cameron nlop|)i'd to hick the door and an Indian ran up to him and said, " If you H|)eak twice you are a diwl man. ( )ne man H|Kike twice and he Ih dea'l. " Cameron turned to Yellow Bear, the Indian who had iMt'M with him all morning, and aHkod hliii what it all meant. Yellow Bear cauglit him by the wriHt and said, "Come with mo," Mrs. Simp- son came out of the factor's house at this moment, and the Indian went on ; " (■<> to her and do not leave her." This Cameron did, and together they walked down the trail until they came in sight of the main ixirty. Not one detail of the massacre esca|>ed them. When all was over they continued on their way toward the Indian cam]). Mrs. SinipHon, as they walked, kept saying, " go on faster," hv' Cameron, seeing that esca|K3 was ini|Kissible, never quickened his pace beyond a walk, and afterwards he found that if he had run a step he would have been killed. When they reacheathy with either the rising or the murders, which they would havs prevpntod if they had been able, and they were Jeter- mined that the prisoners should be well treated. Mr. Simpson, the factor, returned from Fort Pitt uimn the evening of the massacre, and was at once made a prisoner, but no indignities wore offered to him and he was allowed to join his wife. The bodies of the dead were thrown into the houses, which were first rifled, and then burnt. The Plain Crees then aban- doned themselves to a course of dancing and feasting, during which the vigilance of the half- breeds and Wood Crees alone saved the prisoners. Two days after the abandonment of Frog Lake by the Mounted Police Harry Quinn made his way into Fort Pitt alone, unarmed, unhorsed and greatly exhausted. He had seen nothing more than the first acts of violence, and for weeks this was the only relia- ble inforniation received as to what had befallen the people of Frog Lake. The most horrible rumors as to the fate of the women were circulated. On receipt of this terrible news the garriion at Fort Pitt exerted themselves to the utmost to put the fort, a mere collection of log houses, into a defensible state. Bastions to flank the walls and a stockade were constructed, and couriers were sent out to obtain assistance if possible. On the 14th April, a scouting party, consist- ing of Harry Quinn and constables Cowan •nd Louby, went out towatdi Frojp Lake to get news, if possible, of the further move- ments iif the Indians, and to ascertain the fate of their captives. In their absence about a hundred Indians made their ap|>earance upon the hills to the bock of the fort, and a message was sent into Cajitain Dickons, of which a rude fac simile is here given. The publishers have the original. BIG BEAR'S LETTER. That night was passed under arms, and the next morning McLean, jthe Hudson's Bay factor at Fort Pitt, and young Dufresne went out to parley with the Indians. About noon the retur- ning scouts came upon the Indian encampment, and two of them. Cowan and Loasby , made a dash to get through it, and they did gain the crest of the hills above the fort, but a perfect ttorm of bullets followed them as they charged straight for the fort. Both fell, Cowan to rise no more, but Loasby, with two bullets in his body, sua- cessfuUy feigned death until the Indians departed when he managed to reach the fort. The third scout, young Quinn, the survivor of the Frog Lake tragedy, on the appearance of the Indiana wheeled his horse and galloped back towards Frog Lake closely followed, and for a timeall know- ledge of him was lost. The In- dians rushed down to within range of the fort, so eager were they in pursuit of the scouts, and a brisk fire was at once opened upon them, which speedily drove them back, McLean and Du- fresne, who had gone out to parley with the Indians, were kept as prisoners. In the after- noon a message was received from McLean by his wife, advising her and all the civil- ians to come and place them- selves under the protection of Big Bear, who had solemnly promised to protect all the civilians if the police would agree to abandon the barracks. He also warned Capt. Dickens that the place would be burned down, as the Indians had pre- pared fire balls saturated with coal oil with which to fire the fort. Against the wishes of the police all the civilians, both men and women, determined to give themselves up to Big Bear. ~- The little party consisted of Mrs. McLean and her nine children —three of whom were young women, who, during the anxious period when an attack upon the fort was expected, bravely took their stand at [jort holes, rifle in hand, to assist in the defence, while some were but babes ; George Mann, his wife, and three children ; Rev. C. Quinoy and hi* wife, Malcolm Maodonald, Hodgson, / TRK KIKT. RKItKLMoN OK IMW. ing ■■■any iii)()ili th«i liUxx of their hoinim, pliiiiilori'il anil firm) l>y tlm IiidianH, witH til Imi Nan (ruiu tli« lurt* luui atfttiuui. LIEUT.-COL. W. N. KENNEDY four half-brofld f»rm laboroni, two of whom took their fuinilioa, and tho friendly Indian, Nakiiotan, with hia wife and child. Their fate remained a mystery for many an anxioui weuk. On tho oveninft of thia eventful day the twenty- two Mnuntod I'ulicomon abandoned the fort and criwaod the rivor. The next morn- ing, with but little boaidea the Queen'a oolora and their arma, they atarted in an old ferry aoow ujion a voyage of a hundred and twenty milea down thn fast flowing river, which waa atill impeded with floating blocks of drift ice, and the banka of which were in tho hands of a mercileaa enemy. The woatlior waa cold and inclement. During tho firat day out aeveral of the men had their hands and feet frozen, and, worst of all, the scow leaked like a basket, and required constant baling by six men to keep it afloat. Through it all, however, those indomit- able twenty-two kept in good spirits, and found it possible to laugh at one another's attire, and hold on an iaiand a parade for inspection of arms and ammunition, which they declared a pretty "tough looking affair." At last, upon the 22iid of April, five doys after leaving Fort Pitt, they reached Ilattlcford, where for a week they had been reported an missing men. The names, which were about to be placed on the roll of the lost, are :— lusiiector, A. J. Dickens (son of the late Charles Dickena); Staff-Sur- ge TIIK rilONT. Tlifl nowH of tho rulHillion of the lialfbriMMlH iif thu Siuikat<:liowan, under thii liuidnrahip of Uirl, waa reoeiviol with oHtnniiiliniont in Kuat- em ('unoda. This was not duo to luck of cloiu' waminga Re- ports of the inuotiiiga hold at tho difforoiit aottloments in Haskat- ohewan territory had reochud tlio newHi>arieni, and the fact that Uiul waa a in that district reported that trouble waa im- minent. During the fall and winter the Kngliah residents of Prince Albert wrote to friends in the oast, stating that Riel was at work among the half-breeds, and reliellion was certain to break out unleaa prompt meaaurea were taken by the Uov- ornment to overawe tho diaaflectod. But such an upshot seemed so improbable tliut all warnings were completely thrown away. The Government paid no attention to the ag||ation further than borrowing Fort Carleton from the Hudson's Bay Compafly, and increas- ing the numlicr of Mounted Police in the district. It was on the 23rd March that Sir John Macdonald, the Premier, in reply to a ques- tion by Mr. Blake, the leader of the Opposition, stated in parliament that authentic news of the out- break of the Metis had been received by the Government. The general belief at that time was that the trouble would be quickly put down by the Mounted Police force, with the aid of the volunteers of Manitoba. The Govern- ment acted promptly. On tho 24th March Gen. Mid- dleton, commanding the Canadian Militia, was de- Bt>atched to Winnipeg, where he arrived on the 27th to as- sume command of the field force in person. Major-General Frederick Middleton had seen a great deal of service in many different Unds. In 1846, he took part in some very active bush fighting daring the Maori war in Now Zea- land, but it was during the mutiny in India, in 1HS7 and IH.'W, whon ho Imik part In the rnllef of Liioknow, an the aide of (lenrral Liigard that hn won hia gr«at4<>t honoiira, and waa rapidly pnimotod for acrviooH in the fli'ld. He comniandad at tho akinniih at Agi'mghur, and for having twice on that day gallantly aaved a lifii at tho utmost riak of liiaown, hewsarecom- mnnded by (lonnral Liiganl for tlin Victoria Crciaa. Ilia oonipanion in one if thcao advon- tiiroa waa givnn tho coveted honour, but (loni'ral Middlntiin, then a captain, waa not rnconunundnd by Ijord Clyde on the technical ground that he was a staff offloer, and could not therefore Im roRonimunded for the Croaa, Aa &n officer of the now achmil hia reputation waa high in tho service, and for aonie yoara hn hold tho |>oaition of Comniamlantof the military college of Sanilhurat, where, aa a lad, lin wna uducated. Ixiaving aaide hia purely military e«(iorience, hewaa particularly well fitti'd for the campaign in the North-Wcat by having lived long in Canada, and married into a vory |Mipular French-Canadian family, the Doucetji, nf Mont- troal, and by being well acipiaintod with tho men ho was to command. The first battalion ordered out was the 00th Rifles of Winniiieg, tho youngest corps in the aorvice, but very fortunate in its organizer. A year before it had boon created out of aplondid material,— largely trainud men from the eaatorn provincea,— by the late Lieut. -Col. Kunnedy, who, at the time hia battalion waa called out for active aervice at home, was in Egypt as the commander of the contingent of Canadian voyageurs. U|M>n the 25th of March a detachment of a hundred men of thia corpa, under the command of Major Boswell, waa hur- ried woat to Qu'Appelle, as the fidelity of the Indians in the Qu'Appelle valley und at the FORT QU-APPELUE. THK KIKF. KKBKUJON OF IWW. it TimicIiwikhI liillN wiu oimaiJcri'il ilciuiitfiil. Two lUyH Intor, afli'r IwiiiK rovii^wiMl liy (ii'iii'rni Mill- (lli^tim, till) rmiiuindiT of tlm Imttuli"", two hiiiiilri'il Htriiiitf, »nil lliii WiniiiiM'K finlil i ittiiry Witll two llilll' |HIUIIoen riii'^'d ami sent for- ward in an ntceedingly short tiuie. (In the llUt of March, tho 7th of London, Lieut, (lol. Williams, and the Uth of (juoIh'c, Col. Amyot, M.I'. , commanding, was called out, A provi- sional battalion was formed of detachments from the 06th I'rincess I-ouIho Kuiiliers, tlHnl Kifles, and tho Halifax (larrison Artillery, imder the ai«ntnand of Lieut. -Col. .1, J. KTAJOR-aENERAL F. D. MIDDLETON, C.B., Oammaiidu^ia-Clilef •( Uw Outdiui llUlUa. 16 •^HK niKL RKBKLLTON OF 18Rfi. ilruiiin«r, imiiibering aiiino %iO iiicii, Imt tliU batUlinii dill iidt aUrt fur tlio front until tliu lltliAjiril. licHideH all tliuHU regular IxHlii'ii of militia, a liirgB nunilKir "f men were fcirnied into lionii! KuardH tlirini((hout tlio town, of the NortliWcut, and «vcn in tho citiciH of tlio Knst the votornnH of rrgimcnts liki' tho (^uoon'H Own ami tliii Victoria KifliM cnrolli'd tlii'niHolv™ for likn duly. In all, thn regularly enlisted forces called out at tlic; time coniii»ted of 2«0 reffulam, l.OfiO volunteers from Manitoba, \,iM from On- tario, .Wi fnun (^iielxw, and 303 from Nova Hcotia. On tliu 80tli of March, the advanco (fuard of the !H)th marched from Qu'Ai>p<- wanted Ub again, they've called ub out— that II ttiit- Aiiil thi- Imyi! Imvi' got to imaril thcniKjlvod, Yon ran Ix't your iMnits on that ! To aiiiH!Xati> UH Hoinr folks irould, or lndcpeni1ie, Ami Miir Hir .John wouM fi-iliTiUo tin- coloniiii, I nee ; llut lit tlhrii lilow till thi'y nri'"lilui'," and I'll throw up my hat, Ami kIvi' my life for Knglanil'R flog— You can U't your hootH on that I The llau that'll hravril n tllollRanil yrani. You i-'an iMit your lioots on that ! From Qu'Ajjpelle they went to Swift Current to Iwcome the nucleuH of an ex]>edition for the relief of Battleford. Tlieplnn of the campaign then began toanxumo viiiililo form. Uen. Middlcton, wIioho ailvance guard had pushed on Home'lOmilcH to the north- ward by the Cth o.' April, took u|)on himself the LIEOT.-COL. FORREST, Quarter-Master to the Forces in the North-West crushing ot the rebellion of the Metis upon the South Saskatchewan. On its arrival at Qu'- Appelle, A battery, Kingston, was sent to join the 90th and the Winnipeg battery. A company of horse, some 88 in number, raised by Major Boulton, who had seen service in Kiel's first rebel- lion, followed, and later still, half of C Infan- try School and the Tenth Royal Grenadiers were hurried forward to overtake the advance force. To Colonel Otter, the commandant of the Tor- onto Infantry School, and in command of the Queen's Own, was allotted the task of relieving Battleford, and striking at the heart of the Indian rising in that district. B Battery, forty men of C Company, the Queen's Own, and the Ottawa Guards, under Captain Todd, were assigned to him. Around Calgary, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, lie the reserves of the Blackfeet nation, a confederation of tribes, which could put fifteen hundred of the best Indian warriors in the North-West in the field. This confederation, comixmed of Blackfeet, Bloods, Fiegans and Saroees, is allied with American tribes across the border in Montana, from where Riel had been brought, and it was believed that he had before leaving invited the Piegan and Blood Indiana of Montana to aroda into Canada, join tlie Blackfeet, and after taking the Mounted Police iKists at Fort McLeod and Assiniboino, capture Calgary iind destroy the Canadian Pacific Jt.i iway. Tho leading chiefs of the Canadian c mfederation were Crowfoot, the head of tlio nation. Three Bulls.chief of tho Blackfeet, and Kngle Tail of tho Bloods. Crowfoot, chief of the nation, declared that Riel had sent him tobacco — the invitation and signal to rise— but that ho had rejected it. His young warriors were certainly restless and excited, and disturbances actually occurred at Blackfoot Crossing, where it was expected the northern Indians, who were on the war-path, would appear, to induce the Blackfeet to join in the rising. It beaime necessary, therefore, to hold Calgary and the forts and towns in that dihtrict, with a force sufficient to awe tho Indians, The 65th (Montreal) w< re sent to Cal- gary, where they arrived on April 10th, They were put under Major-General Strange, who had already raised a company of scouts in tlio district. As Calgary was tho point on tho railway nearest to Edmonton, it became tho base of an expedition for tho reliof of that place, which General Strange was commissioned to organize. The Commissariat department was placed under the charge of that veteran officer, Major-General Laurie, who had been among the first to offer his services. Owing to the bad condition of the prairie trails, the question of transport was a most important one, and an immense number of teains was required. It was determined, if possible, to use the South Saskat- chewan river, which opens generally l)etween the 1st and the 16th of April, for the forward- ing of supplies to General Middleton's column. As soon as the trouble arose. Sir A. T. Gait placed the r.teamers "Alberta," "Bar- oness" and "Minnow," which were on tho river, at the disposal of the Government, and the steamer "Northcote" was started from Medicine Hat as soon as it was possible to get her into i.-im after her winter's rest. Upon April 8th, she began her "oyage, which proved to be one of tho most adventurous ever under- taken by a steamboat. The " Nortlicoto " is a flat-bottomed stem-wheeler, of about two hundred tons burden, and is the property of the Hudson's Bay Comjianv. It is worth recording, before closing this chapter, on the calling out of the volunt.eer8 and tho forwarding of them to the front, that within one month of the breaking out of the rebellion, a force of over 3,000 men of all branches of the service had been called out and transported, tho greater portion more than 1,800 miles and the remainder 2,S00 miles, and in addition nearly 1,600 men had been raised in Manitoba and the west. Not one-tenth of the militia force avail able was called out, and there was not a corps in the Domimon which was not anxious to go. CHAPTER VI. BIATINO CF THI HITIB. The ta«k of the First Division was to strike at the heart of the rebellion, and, as each day that Riel remained unconquered brought him recruits and made the Indiana more restless, there waa no time to be lost in administering the blow. The distance from Qu'Appelle station to Batoche, the stronghold of the rebels, waa two hundred and thirty miles. The trail, or line of march, was for most of the distance over a prairie which the melted snow had converted •««. ' Bagi^iiliBadi£^ THK niKL REBELLION OF 1S85. 11 into ADoaked Hpniigu, ami in (iluvt'H tlii-ru w«ru alkali »Wttiii|)« which destroyud thu iiien'u bi)oU and injured their feet. The wmither was wretched, ruin fiillinf; lieavily at timcH duringf tl>« day and thd tciiniicratimj beint; frequently below freezing and even at tinieH heh)w zero at night. To imsh rajiidly on nnder the-su eircum- Btances and to fiijlit an invisil)lo enemy, whose n\iniberH could oidy be conjectured, known to be aharpsliootcrH almost to a man, was work whole diviHion, com|>oaed of the remainder of the 90th (WinniiKsg), thelst half of C Company, the Winnipcjf Field Battery and A Battery (Quebec), brigaded under Colonel Montizani- bert, the 10th (ircnadiers (Toronto), and Boul- ton's Mounted scouts, under Colonel (Jrassett, were on the way between Qu'ApjMjUe and Touchwood. Four hundred horse teams trans- ported the baggage and supplies of the force. From Touchwood to Humboldt, a station where South .Saskatchewan river. The trail to Clarke's Crossing was followed, and the pdvancu force cam|Hu«h on to Bfttocln'. A lialt was nncflwMry, liowi'Vi-r, to allow tlir otliiT detachment of tho diviiiion to coiiio up, mul the niipplies of the atlviiiicii forci' with K't- ting low. Be«ide«, wimo infnrmfttion rcKftrdinR the (liiipoiiition and Htrcn^th of tho r.liclM hod to bfl (fainnd Ixifore tlin cinniiiii(fn boyoiid Clarke's OmiwinK could \>e prosccutifl. Li ki' many othor (ien^ralK, Middlofon had to coinii to a dociHion H'hethiT he should divide a Bniall force, The relx'ls hild Iwth BideH of the river at the cross- injfH below Clarke's. If Middlcton marched in undividearo on the east side, so that from nnder cover of the bush the insurgents could •>p|uHe Huccoxgfully a much i:uperiur force fully ex|His«aper pinned to the bark of a tree, with markings uiwn it, that bore some faint resemblance to a drawing of three Indians, A few minutes after three Indians were seen try- ing to creep down a coul^ They were quickly surrounded, but instead of surrendering they made a bold stand, and, with their Winchester rifles at the present, were ugly customers to approach. Lord Melgund hailed them, prom- ising them safety, and after some talk they came out. They were Teton Sioux of White Cap's band, a portion of an American tribe, which had taken part in the massacre in Minesota some years ago, and had fled to Canada. Their chief and his baud went with Riel, but very few other Indians had joined him. One of them was sent back to Kiel's camp with a message to White Cap that if the seven prisoners, known to bo in Kiel's hands, were brought safely into camp, SlOO reward would be given. The only re- liable information that had been received from Prince Albert for some time was a message brought in by Frank Hourie, the son of a Government interpreter, and a young man who, by his deeds of daring, has earned for him- self a high place in thii record of this war. He left Humboldt, on the 28th March, with a mes- sage from the General to Colonel Irvine. On Monday, the 30th, he reached Clarke's Crossing, when he found that the river had broken up. He attempted to swim across amidst the blocks of drifting ice, of which the river was full, and was nearly drowned before ho turned back. He tried again at night, however, and was success- ful. Having left his horse on the south bank ho was forced to walk to Prince Albert, which he reached on Thursday and delivered his des- patches. He found Colonel Irvine safely en- sconced in a log fort, with a body of some eight hundred men at his command, half of whom were well armed. Thesettlers from the neighbor- hood had fled to Prince Albert for refuge, leaving cattle and grain behind them, so that, with the augmented population to feed, supplies were growing scanty. It was because of this infor- mation, which reached him at Touchwood, that the General was anxious to push on. Although no exertion was spared, it was not till the 22nd April that the advance took place. Meanwhile the various eastern corps called out later had THE STEAMER " NORTHCOTE ' been slowly making their way through the wil- derness north of Lake Superior to Winnipeg. The Midland regiment arrived at Winnipeg on the 14th April, and were sent on to Qu'Appelle almost at once. The York and Simcoe battalion followed them, and the 9th (Quebec), which had arrived at Winnipeg on the 12th April, were sent to garri,sou Fort McLeod and Gleichen in the Calgary di.strict. Colonel Scott's battalion, tlio Olst (Winnipeg), were despatched to Fort Qu'ApiMiUe on April 16tli, for the purpose of awing the Indians and half-breeds of the val- ley, and of guarding the line of communication with the fort. The Governor-General's Body Guard and the Quebec School of Cavalry, the first bodies of enlisted horse called out, were also in Winnipeg by April 20th, and they were brigaded with the Winniiicg cavalry, making a mounted force of two hundred men. It was found almost impossible to transport sufficient supplies over the prairie trail to Clarke's Cross- ing, and the South Saskatchewan being now open, it was determined to move the base of sup- plies to Swift Current, and use the steamers on the route to coiivoy the supplies down the South Saskatchewan from the landing north of Swift Current to Clarke's Crossing. The steamer "Northoote" arrived at Saskatchewan Land- ing, the port of Swift Current, on April 14th, and preparations were at once mode for her trip down the river. There arrived at Swift Current about this time two Gatling guns, ordered from the Gatling Arms Company, of New Haven, Ct., and sent on under the charge of Lieut. Howard, of the Connecticut State militia, who was des- tined to distinguish himself in the campaign. .. L, ^Mil I I ill II TUB KIKL IIEBKLLION OI' 1883. 13 vil- . LEAVING MEDICINE HAT. CHAPTER VII. ottsb'u uahch. Lieutenant-Colonel W. D. Otter was given the coHUnand of tlio Second Division, wSioso work was the relief of Battleford. He is a Canadian whoso military training has been entirely gained in the Canadian militia. In 1862 he joined the Queen's Own as a private, and distinguished himself even then by his intense interest in military matters. In 1864 he carried his colors in a Provisional battalion on the Niagara frontier. Ho was soon t le adjutant of the Queen's Own, and in 1875 became its Colonel. From the duties of this position, made by his own devotion an onerous one, he retired to take the command of the C Company of regulars, and the Toronto Infantry school. This was his first exiierience of active service in command, and he set forth with the inestimable advantage of being known and admired by the greater part of his little force. The first advance from Swift Current, the station on the Canadian Pacific which had been selected as' the base of the movement, was made u|)on th 12th of April, when a body of forty-five Mounted Police, under Colonel Herchmer, moved forward to Saskatche- wan Landing. During the short period that intervened between the arrival of the force and the advance, an immense amount of vork had been done in collecting transiwrts. On the morning of the 13th the little force fell into column of route and the march commenced. The force was comiwsod as follows : — C Com- pany, under Lieutenant Wadmore, 43 strong ; B Battery, Major Short, 112 men with two Stm. "AlU^rta," "iiitfuneaa" uid "Miuuow." 9-pounders, and two Uatlings in charge of Lieutenant Howard of the C.S.M. ; the Ottawa Sharpshooters, Captain Todd, 50 ; Ciuoon's Own, Lieut. Col. Miller, 285 men. On the evening of tho 14th April they stood on the crest of a high bluff, below which spread out a stretch of undulating bcoken country, at tho verge of which ran tho broad waters of tho South Sas- katchewan, sweeping closely to tho bold north bank. The steamer " Northcoto " was found awaiting the troops, and a despatch was received from General Middleton ordering Lieutenant Howard with one of the Catlings to accompany the " Northcote" down tho river to Clarke's Crossing, there to join the First Division. Owing to tho high wind which prevailed, and to other causes, the tfisk of ferrying the troops and supplies over tho river occupied tlireo days, and it was not until the 18th that the advance from the north bank began. From that time there was no delay. One hundred and ninety teams had been collected, and tho foot soldiers were each provided with a seat in a waggon, so that the fighting material was not> worn out by hard marching. For miles the route lay along a fine trail over a treeless prairie, and the march was without incident. At night the waggons were formed in a hollow square and bound together with roi>eB. Inside tho laager thus formed the horses were fastened, and the tents were pitched without the square, so that all danger of the horses being stamjieded was effectually avoided. So bare of timber is this section of the country that wood for fuel had to be transported alimg with otlier necessaries, and the supply running short, no fire could be had one night, greatly to the discomfort of tho men. Wag- gons were sent ahead to a creek to bring kick the iioplar trees which, on prai- riee, grow only on the banks of »t r e a m s. No human being was seen on tho whole march. The total dis- tance by trail to be covered be- tween Swift Ctir- rent and Battle- ford was 202 miles, and on the 18th they had completed 32^ miles of this dis- tance. On tho morning of tho 23rd, eighty of the Queen's Own were mustered for skirmish duty, and the Mounted Polico were off far in advance of tho column — for, at last, the column was about to en- ter the bush and broken land of the Eagle Hills, where the In- dians might be expected. It was three o'cl(H:k in the afternoon, and the excitement attendant upim the discovery of nine cart loads of goods which had been abandoned by a freighter, unable to reach Battleford sometime before, had died away, when the order came to tho skirmishers to full back, and ths guns were ssnt to tho front on the gallop^ There was nothing from tho head of the column to cause alann, however, but a long way to tho front the Muunt- ed Police scouts wero having their little affair with the enemy, Charles Ross, a member of the police force and a scout, who in this cam- paign rivalled the mythical doings of tho Leath- er»«tocking heroes, was riding far in advance of tho column with soma six or eight men of the Mounted Polico, when he saw a body of about fifteen mounted Indians some distance ahead. Four of them advanced a short distance to- wards the police, as if in doubt as to who they were. After sixty or seventy shots had been exchanged between the two parties, the Indians made off, leaving behind a cart-load of provis- ions, but no dead. On Friday the scouts were pushed forward to explore the reserve of the Stoney Indians, through which that day's route lay, but not an Indian was to be seen. They found, however, thebodyof the murdered Payne, and that also of a young Indian woman, who had been murdered, probably for attempting to save tho instructor. All that day the column marched through wo dash on to Battlefurd, ijitctic^d tlii!ir U'litii. During that night of iHuwivii c'xcitcinent Imt f«w hlept. Bhiitn wiTu lifurd to tho iicrtli alxmt iiinp, and a iMxiy rif |Hihci> wi'nt nut ti> find that jhotii hotl Ix^'n «xchimK''l l".twifn tlio ncmitu unci tho I iii'tiiy. A ciiiipli' '<{ doiwl Indiana who»« bodioH wiri' found uvtit nmrning was tho rPHult. Then ciinii' a liiiist «if fire fri)m tho iinrth, and it was li'/ii'iii'd that It waB Jiidgu Kimh^au'H house, tiio (iiHiit ill tlir north, that was burning. An hoUf's iimrrh next morning brought thera to tho di»- 111,'iiith'd town (if Old Battlefurd, and as soon as tlif (irry iutohh the Battle river could be worked a party of oihcirs croKHwl to the Fort, while the camp was pitched iM.'side the old Government olticisoii the south side of the river. Sad news grouted the trooiis on their arrivaL On tho oven- CH.VPTKU VIII. THK BATTLE OF riSH CRIKK. At last the delay in the advance which had fretted the men of tho First Division was over, and on the morning of the 23rd of April tho camp liroko np, tho whole force, divided into two col'irans, proceeding northward along l)oth banks of the river. Though tho columns wore separated by tho river they were to keep as nearly as possible abroast for mutual support, one of the ecows being brought down the river for the purpose of ferrying either column across at need. The coiumne were as nearly as possible of the same strength in all arms. That on the east bank, which was jnost likely to moot tho enemy in force, General Middleton commanded in jiorson. It was composed of 90 men of A JJattory with two guns, 40 men of C Company, plans miscarried in some unexplained way, a night attack would have been made, and in the confusion that would probably have ensued with a force made up of men who had never boon under fire, many would have been massacred. While Dumont and his half-breeds in the ravine were awaiting vainly the arrival of reinforce- ments which would have enabled thom to curry out their plan, the night wore away and tlie sentries instead of giving a hurried night alarm wore cheerily calling * ' all's well" to one another. On the following morning the march was re- sumed, Boultou's Horso furnishing tho mounted scouts and the advance guard, accompanying which, contrary to tho usual practice, was the General commanding and his staff. The morn- ing was a bright, sunny one ; tho prairie, which a few days before had been covered with snow, was now clad with verdure and flowers, yellow BATTLEFORD BARRACKS, Which Poundmaker attacked, and wberu ho is now a Prisoner. ing of the 22nd, when the usual relief of the pickets took place, Frank Smart, when about three miles to tho went of the Fort iwrforming out|H)8t duty with a Mounted Policeman, was shot dead by an ambushed savage. His com- imnion galloped in with the news, and that night was passed under arms. Mr. >Smart was a young merchant of Battloford who had risked his life to carry tho news or tho trouble to Swift Current, and liis death produced annost painful impression. Next day Ross brought them word of Otter's approach, and there was much joy among the crowded (wpulntion of the Fort. Within its narrow bounds there were 660 per- sons when it was relieved. Cnl. Otter had commenced his military careeros a field officer by carrying a force of over five hundred men, a distance by trail of one hundred and sixty-six miles in five days, or at the rate of 33 miles a day. 60 men of Boulton's Horse, and the 90th hat- talion 300 strong, or 480 men in all. That on tho west bank was under command of Lieut. -Col, Montizambert, with Lord Melgund as chief of his staff. It was made up of 25 of French's scouts, 20 of Boulton's Horse, 32 of A Battery, 52 of the Winnipeg Field Battery with two guns, and the 10th Royal Grenadiers 250 men, in all 375 men. Tho first day's march was an uneventful one, but the scouts were kept well out as it was known that the enem^ was not far off. After the hard day's march of 18 miles the camp of the right column was pitched on the bank of the Saskatchewan within a few miles of a wooded ravine, where only a few days before a scout had taken shelter from the rebels when on his way back from Prince Albert with mes- sages. Tho men slept soundly after their hard work, in fancied security. Y et, had not the rebels' and purple, growing in profusive variety. The men step|)ed out cheerily undor these influences. Suddenly rifle shots rang out, and in a few minutes Captain Wise, one of the General's aides, galloped into sight witti an order for the batteries to come forward into action and tho main body to follow. The scouts, who had been thrown well out on the advance, rode back with the report that the enemy were posted in a lightly wooded bluff on each side of tho trail where it Jed into a ravine, which was also held by the enemy, A baud of the rebels, mounted, had followed the scouts over the ridge, but General Middleton, sending his order back by Wise, did not withdraw, but riding to one side made way for the passage of Boulton's scouts who charged the enemy. After a few hasty shots the mounted body of the enemy, with a loud shout, retired, and shortly after the under- Ml ■vir: THE RIEL REBELLION OF 1885. Ill brush and croat nf tho ridgo was liiiod with Hkiriuighera whci began at once an irregular and haruHHing fire. Major Boulton at once din- mounted his inon and in Hkirmiahing order they began to creep up un the low ridgo and the adjacent copses. Tho sharpshooters of the 90th formed the front of tho main body, and they at once began to extend and get forward, beginning thoir fire, in fact, before they reached tho scouts' line. With a rush tho guns then came up, under Captain Peters, and unlimberod at the foot of the linos J the A Battery men, wlio were serving as infantry, forming on either side of thorn as a overing force. Then came tho gleam of white and scarlet, as C ComtJany came up the trail in oloso order with the jioculiar steadiness of regulars, and took up thoir jiosi- tiiin on tho right of tho guns. As they extended, taking cover in tho bush, the guns opened fire with shrap- nel shell, which were dropjied just behind the oi)posing ridge. Thick and fast the bullets whistled round tho gunners' oars as they worked. Two companies of the 90th, under Major Boswell, wore tho next troops to cnnie up and they took their position to tho left. Lying down they opened fire, and tho remain- ing tiiree companies also turned to the left and ex- tended, Bu that in a few moments a line of battle half a mile in length had been formed. Tho shrapnel fired by the guns had a very per- ceptible effect utwn the rebel 6re about the centre of the position, and Boulton's Horse took advantage of this to press onward, and here some of his men fell,— Captain Gardner being the first, with two bullets in his body. Tho whole fighting line then slowly followed up the Horse, and uiran tho left B and C Companies of tho 90th outflanked the rebel lino, and gained tho ridgo. They ,"' then saw before them an ■■■,'''■ ofion stretch of prairie, in . v the centre of which was , , _ ' ' evidently a deep coulde, be- hind which wero several houses, A shell from tho guns, which dropped in the rebel lines, finished this imrtion of the fight, and tho ridge and bush were abandoned, the rebels falling back into tho couMe, the General himself gaining the ridgo on the loft just as tho last body of rebels disappeared in tho ravine. In leading up his company across tho trail in the little rush that brought the Rifles up to Boulton's Horse and secured the ridge, Captain Clark fell while cheering on his company. His fall produced tho first symptoms of unsteadiness among the men. The fight had now been waged for half an hour and the rebels liad been driven from their first position in the wooded bluffs on each side of the trail. A volley or two was delivered from the ridge and then the line advanced steadily across tho open to the couliSe which it was evident the rebels held in strength. Then, and only then, tho existence of tho ravino became apparent. Tho banks, which were of soiuo height, fell away quitu rapidly, and, though precipitous in some places, wero overywhoro lightly wooded, except uihju tho very crest of the ridgo, fmni which tho |>rairie fires had burned the growth of young trees. U|Hin the loft, at tho siKit where tho lust of tho enemy had disappoarud, tho s1o[m) was more gradual. It was hero that ono of tho most plucky dashos of tho day w,ih made at a later period. Through tho bottom of tho couh'o, which was quite boggy, a small stream could be seen, and tho only sign of lifo w,-is a group of Indian ponies tied to tho small poplars at its edge, C Company was thrown boldly for- ward to tho right and gut some cover upon the edge of tlio slope at this point, from which they could pour a hoavy fire down tho ravine, but tho LORD MELGUND. rebels poured in such a heavy cross fire from an arm of tho ravino which stretched to tho south, and from a couple of houses and the bush in tho rear, that the position becamo untenable, and the men wore ordered to withdraw. In falling back thoy underwent a galling fire, which killed one and badly wounded two oil three of thorn. Along tho whole face of the'ravine, which had been occupied by tho 90th, Artillery and Boul- ton's horse, the showing of a head was sure to draw the fire of a dozen rifles of the unseen enemy, to which the troops could make no effective re- 8i)onso. So tho fight went on, with no dccisivo results. All along the lino of the ravino men were being hit tc the tunc of the constant rattle of the rifle fire, interrupted at times by the pe- culiar sharp, barking call of tho Indians, and drowned now and again by tho boom of tho guns and the crushing oxplosinn of tho shrap- nel and connnon shell, which were l>eing thrown into tho rnvinu and aon ss it at tho houses on the opposite Ixink. C Company, admirably handled by Major Smith, succeeded in chocking the advance of tho rebels in their front, and a couplo of shells from Drury's gun, which had been brought round from the left for tliat pur- [lOHo, fired a couple of houses on the oxtrenio right and dislodged a lK>dy of rolwls who wero endeavoring to turn the right flank. At noon tho ravino was still in possession of tho insurgents, and tho batteries ccnild not, with tho guns, feel tho enemy, and shell after shell had no offect in silencing their fire. Captain Tetors therefore volun- teered to load a dash of that portion of A Battery not doing duty with the gims into tho ravine, to clear it by a struggle at close quarters if possible. At the head of his men he rushed down tho 8lo[>e on the left through a hail of bullets, He found himself, however, unable to do anything but send hisnion to find cover as well as they could in the bottom of the ravine. Not a single rebel was to be seen, and the steep banks wore not to bo scaled. The enemy who wero on tho edge of tho ravino above them, though out of sight, fired uiHin them, and it seemed as if not a man would escajH) with his lifp. Though many slight woimds wero roi;oivod, and clothes wero pierced, only one man. Cook, was shot dead. When under cover of agun the men fell back, they were forced to leave his body where ho had fallen. Another attempt was made to storm tho rebels* position by B and C com- panies of the 90th, under Major Boswell, but they, too, wore forced to fall back, leaving one man dead upon the field. About ono o'clock tho gims wore sent down under Captain Fetors, by the aloyie on tho left, and up tu the other side of the ravine to shell the rebels out of the angle on the right, which was already known as the " Hornets Nest." After fir- ing a ninnber of rounds of shrapnel into this angle they returned in safety, not having lost a man, though under a constant fire both going and returning. Meantime Colonel Montizambert's column on tho west bank, which was four miles back when fire was opened, wero hurrying forward in tho direction of tho noiso of battle, when they were met by a messenger from General Middleton ordering tho Batteries with tho guns and the 10th Royals to cross the river and to come into action. It won four o'clock in the afternoon when tho main body of this column came upon tho field and tho fight was practically over. Tho Royals and C Comi>any wore sent to relieve the skirmishers of the 90th, who had been fighting all day, and the guns were sent to the rear. For an hour the firing continued in a desultory way, when, a« IS THK KIEL RKBKI,LI(»N OF ISaV night wnsconiiiiK <'n, it liocatiie nccixHary ritlivr t<) iirdflr a clittrKi'inl') tlwraviiiuor tu witliilrttw. An u clmrKS wax likely tn Im attended with con ■ideralili' Iomi and it wan diHiiii'd eaHJer tu ntarvu the rebi'lM nut if iiiTcnsary, tlio UoyalB and C Ciiinpaiiy, whocmisidrird theiiiwIviKdnnocmtof their nlia™ »f the ti(,'liliiiKi riitind with extrriiio reluctaiifc, tliiiii(,'h a raiii-Htorin, the second ipf Iho day, won cMniinK mi. Am they did »" a remark- al)le in(-ident, hut one apparently well authen- ticated, ti/ok phice. Iliiurie, tho interpreter iif tlie fcirce, advanced to the edge of tho ravine and called out to ihu relM-ln lielow : " la tialiriel Duniont there?" All through the various fortunes of the day the conduct of tliodenvral had been such as to arouse in his men the moat enthusiastic admira- tion. From the first, he was everywhere at the front, riding along the very crest of the ravine, and doing all he possihly could to keep his men out of the danger he himself sconied. Many of till! casualties that took jilace were, in fact, the effect of the men's desire to have a shot at the enemy, which led them to advance reckless- ly down the sIoijc (jf the ravine. When leading the men up tu the low rolling ridge where the reliels made their first stand a bullet passed through the Uencral's cap. Turning tu the men ever seen war. The camp had been pitched betwen the trail and the river, some distance to tho rear, and, as the Urenadiers approaclied it, a party of mounted men burst out of the little clump of trees t>ehind the ridge from which they had first apiwared in tho morning and wIkmiihhI as if in triumph. At the time it was thought that this defiance presaged a desperate fight ui)on the morrow, but later events showed that it was mere bravado on the part of the last holders of the position, for the rebel force had been melting steadily away all day. When the camp was reached, in the midst of a heavy down- jjour of rain, there was but little of the glow of riWKTACK SET ON FlK n A SklTCRV CUS FARM HOUSB nP'PWPftlfti^i, y BIEU'% V.^^^ 90" RESERVB AAA AMEULAHCE Ay A A CAMPS '%. " Yes, what do you want with me ! "' " Have you got many ineu ? " Yes, a great many. " " Will you have a meeting with me ? I am Hourie." There was no answer to this, and Hourie, turn- ing leisurely , came back safe, A loud voice was heard at times saying: "Couruge met Brave*." One man, at whom none could get a good shot, though many distinguished him as the man with the red band around his hat, was pretematurally active, and his rifle did frightful execution. This WM believed to be Gabriel Dumunt, the lighting man of the Metis, FISH CREEK. Hap of the field uf buttle o{ tho 31th of April. of the 90th, who, as they ran up, were, naturally enough, ducking their heads to tho music of the whistling balls, the General cried : "Holdup your heads, men I Had I been stooping, that bullet would have gone through my brain." indeed, General Middleton was severely criti- cised for being in the front of the lines during the action, and exposing himself recklessly. His defence was that he considered it necessary to do so, in order to encourage young troops under 6re for the first time, and also to ensure the executiim of his commands, which be dare not entrust to the inexperienced officers under him, none of whom, «ith one or two exceptions, had battle in the men who had fought so long and so bravely, and when the lists of dead and wound- ed were made up the cost in human life of this apparently resultless struggle, was such as to deepen the gloom. Out of a total of about S.'iO men actively engaged during the heat of the struggle 43 were either killed or wounded. Of these ten were killed. The official list publish- ed after the battle v/as as follows : 90TB BATrALlON. A Company— Private Hutchioson, killed in the flnt charge ; Private Ferguson, killed in the first charge ; Private MaCthews, left arm broken ; Captain Fekler, shot in the arm and band ; Private C, Kemp, shot in the groin. 191 tHR RTEL RKBELLTON OB' ISflS. n Coinpany-rrivnto Whpclnr, ViWcA ; Trlvati' Hwnin, •lightly woiindeil In tli« arm ; Privatn Jurvin, twii HliKlit wnundn; Frlvnlo Tjivcl, wotinti In tlio RhnuUler; frlvats JoliiiHoii, Hllg)itly wniiiulcil. CCompftny— LIciit. Swliifnitl, wound in l»min ; Capt. Ijethorl)y, wound inlrn'RHt; Pilvatu Cwln, wound Inlri^; Private ClinnilHTH, Hiiglit wound In neck; Priviito Can- ulir, wound In anu. O Company- Private Ennia, killed; Corid, Bowdon, ■liglitly wonndwl, P Company— Capt. Clark, wounded In baek while movlni; froni one Idiilf to another. The hullet followed the rib around to the front niul wuh found in IiIh elothos. Private Ue«lop. arm fmelnrod; Private A. Blackwood, alightlywouudcilln thit;h, A nATTERV, Garrison Division— Gunner Honney Dcmannally, kill- ed; Gunner Cook, killed; Gunner Morrinon, twdly wounded: Gunner AInaworth, hadly woundetl; Scrgt- Major Mawliinney, right arm broken ; Gunner Aslln, wounded; Gunner Irvine, woinided in thigh; Gunner Woodman, wonnded in shoulder ; Giumer Langrcll, wounded In arm ; Gunner Oulllett, wounded in shoulder. Mounted Division — Driver Turner, wounded iu cheek; Driver Wilson, right arm broken ; Diiver Harrison, flesh wound In neck, COMPANV, INrANTBY RcnOOI., Col,-8ergt, Cuniblings, flesh wound in leg; Private R. Jones, arm fractured; Private II. Jones, shot through the Jaw ; Private R. II. Dunn, bad wuuud in ami and hand, shot twice ; Private Walaon, killed. HAJon boultoh's iiobse. Captain Gardner, two slight wounds ; Trooiicr James Longford, two slight wounds ; Trooper Perlns, arm broken ; Trooper King, two wounds iu leg ; Troojier Darey Baker, very serious wound In chest ; Bergt. Stewart, slight wounds in the car and hands. Botli the Gonoral's nidea-de-cainp, Lieutenant ]')(>iicet and Gapt.Wii<«, who had acted thrimghout the day in the most gallant and fearlesx manner, were wounded, the first in the arm, the second in the ankle and ahoiilder. Upon the following morning, the 90th were ordered out, but not an enemy was to be seen. In the ravine were fifty or sixty dead poniea, killed by the Bhells, and four dead rebels — all Indians — were also found. The secret of the stiength of the position was then discovered; at the edge of the ravine were finely formed rifle pits, and so well laid out that the wonder was that the struggle had not been more disas- trous. Their broad end pointed up the hill mand, and he wont out with the avowed purpose of cutting off nno column of General Middleton's forces, and only i)roparod the ravine for defence in case he should bo driven from the field. His advance guard was attacked by overwhelming forces, but hold its own until the line of battle had been formed, and, after a brisk half hour's fight, his first position was carried all along the line. The enemy then foil back into the ravine and made a desi>erate attempt to turn the right flank of the troops. This was fnistrated, but two attempts to carry the ravine by assault failed. Both sides then abandoned the field of battle, and the Metis loft some of their dead, the sad- dles and bridles on their dead horses, and a number of arms in the rifio pits. From the best sources of information obtainable it is believed the rebel loss was eleven killed and eighteen wounded. Gabriel Uumont supplied the rebel govern- ment with a masterly written accoui t of the person was hurt by them, and very few of the men were frightened. With the exception of Ridgoway, which was hardly a satisfactory test, the Canadian volun- teer militia wore never triod in battle until this day. They had, in this case, fought a desiicrato fight from nine o'clock in the morning till six at night with expert riflemen whom they could not see ami could not reach, yet not once had they faltered. Tho OOlh of Win- nipeg fairly won their Npiirs in this action, and Boulton's horse earnril for themselves — by being tho first into thn active fight and the lost out of it— the place which they so proudly kept upon another day. The two regular corjis, A Battery and C Comiwny, had Iwen in tho thick of tho fight from tho first, and tho dash of Cap- tain Peters into tho ravine, and tho tenacity with which C Company clung to an untenable position and there foiled a persistont attack were fine achievements. Tho men thus forced to abandon their strong position wcro old fight- ing men, holding ground whoso capabilitiosthoy know. FishCreok has boon tho scono of three sub- sequent fights between Indian and half-breed forces. c: adly wound- ed. The courage of the troops was frequently eommented on, and asoribed to the free use of liquor, the writer not thinking it posdble for men to wish to earry water in a bottle. The shrapnel and common shell which were thrown in such quantities into the ravine oould not have produced a great effect, as it Is stated that no CHAl'TER IX. TBB TIIIRI) DIVISION RKLIKVH IU)UONTON, Early in April reports from Ed- niiinton represented utfairs thero to be in an aliirniiiig state. The Indians wore assuming a threaten- ing attitude, and tho half-breeds were said to l)0 about to follow the advice of Riel and rebel. Thn scpmd of Mounted Police at Fort Saskatchewan were said to have declared that to protect that post was the utmost they could do, and thn terror-stricken people of Ed- monton were told that they would have to defend themselves as best they could. The regular mail ser- vice failed to get through, and imagination suggested pictures of tho fate of the people at the north, which aroused the deepest anxiety. The Third Division for the relief of Battleford had then to be made up hurriedly, at Calgary, from which a trail led to Edmonton 104 miles north. Resid- ing near Calgary was a British officer, the origin of whose family was of a singularly romantio nature, and who, after having won, like many of hia ancestors, distinction in the English army, had settled down on a ranch in the far west. To him was entrusted the command of the Tliird Division. Major-General Strange is said to be a descendant of Charles Martel, the greatest of the Mayors of the Palace to the last of the Merovingian sovereigns, and also to Charlemagne, the conqueror of the Romans. He certainly sprang from a good Scotch family of the seventeenth century — the Lunisdeoi. When Charles Edward Stuart made his last attempt to regain the throne of his ancestors, his private secretary was one of the Lumsdens, Andrew by name, who had » lovely sister, Miss Lumsden had won the affection of a "stickit" law student, Robert Strange, who had shown some talent for engraving. She 11 Itt THK RIKr. KKnET.I.TON OF lOflB. infomuxl 1«t l«>v«r thut if Ins winhcil t4) win liiT lio iiiuHt ili'viitd liiiiiHi^lf ti) till! I'rinco'B cBiiHe, a condition which, though without any admiration (or tho I'rinco or any iiolitical Inaninipi, hn iinhi-BitfttiiiKly ftccoplwl. After tho coUik|iHii of tho I'rnlondiT'H ciuw, yoiing HtrunK" wan iittaintiil itinl finally ihivriiirie, almost treeless, and tho only impediment to travel was an occasioned marsh, U|>i>n Saturday, the 25th, the Brst stage of the march was safely accomplished. Tho force camped on the shore of the river, and a number of the transport teams was sent back to tho asaistance of the second column. The river was forded without difficulty upon tho following day, and in shorter stages the march was con- tinued through a more diversified country. Upon the 23rd April the second column, mado up of the left wing of the 65th, twenty-fivo Mounted Police, with one nine-pounder gun, and the Alberta mounted rifles, fifty strong, the whol9 under the command of Major Ferry, a graduate of the Kingston military college, who hod held a commission in the Royal Engineers, moved out of camp. On the 28th of April this column reached the Red Deer river, which the first column had been able to ford in waggons witli no great difficulty, and found that it had bocorae a mighty torrent A raft was hurriedly built and an attempt made to swing it across, but the rope broke, and it was only by tho most doKiH-mte personal exertion on the part of Major Perry, and at the risk of his lite, that the hastily improvised ferry boat, uiran which the guns, ammunition, etc. , had been placed, was rescued from the stream. Major Perry then laid down the lines of a ferry scow, and, some rough material having been secured, a serviceable floi.t was omstructod in three days, and a guard placed over it. On the 30th the right wing of tho 02nd, tho regiment of veterans raised by Col. Osborne Smith in Wiunii«g in a few days, movud forwardlas the third colunm of General Strunge's division. Lieut. -Col. Smith had, as an officer of the 39th of the line, seen service in the Crimea, but besides that lie had,during the troubles of 1861, organized the Victoria Rifles of Mont- real, Hehodalai^ghareintheFeniaQ troubles of '66 and '70, having been in command of the southern frontier during that troublesome time, and won high encomiums for this service. The battalion he had raised was an especially fine one, and the wearers of tho scarlet and cordurciy signalized themselves by tramping to Edmonton in nine dayit, actual marcliing time, or eleven days in all on tho road. General Strange arri vod with the right wing of the 6Sth on tho 2nd May, and found the whole settlement in a state of LlEUT.-COL. J. A. OUIMET, OommaQdioc Kth Battalion. lutnic. The Indians of tho vicinity made no difficulty about aon the 5th of May, and when on tho 12th the right wing of the 92nd arrived, with 46 scouts. General Strange found himself at the head of a body of 730 men, mode upof 31Sof the 65th Battalion, 00 Edmonton volunteers, 70 Mounted Police, 60 Alberta Mounted Infantry, 46 scouts, and 190 of tho 92nd. The work upon the flat boats, to be used in an advance by the river to Fort Pitt, had been pressed, and in spite of the almost continu- ous rumors of attack, ui>on the 14th of May the 92nd started down the North Saskatchewan river in seven hastily built barges, and four companies of the 65th, under Lieut.-Col Hughes, wore despatched by the north trail ; Victoria, on tho river, 74 milvs from Edmonton, being the rendezvous. On the 18th, a fiold force, consist- ing of 120 horse, one gun, and 340 infantry, were encamped at Victoria. Lieut.-Col. Ouiuiot, who, by hard riding, in spite of illness, hod rejoined his regiment, was left at Edmonton with tho remaining four companies of tho C5th in garrison. A ciniipivny of settlors and half- breods wore sworn into jirotect Victoria, and tho old post, a palisaded work with u small bastion, was put into a state of defence. The ferry scow was repaired, bullet proof bulwarks added to it, and the whole flotilla was pro- vided with hastily devised anchors. The boat which was to carry the gun was equipped for service in such* nun- I ' 90 THK RIKL REBELLION OP IMS. WW th»t, klthniiKh (lovoiil of |>rii|i«lliii({ iHiwer, th" K"'" """I'l '"' iK'f vihI in any ilirncti"ii. C»i>t. Bt»M>lii, wilh Ik Ixwly i.f loo w..iiIh iukI |«.lico, WM fur ill ttdvwioc, ami ttic .mwnril linigruiiii of tli« coliiiiiii WM »Uyoil for Homo diiyH awaitiiiK liitolliK«ii<'" from lii"' i» nriirwt, which wer>) believed to be tlio alarm signal of Poundmaker's scouts. While wait- in); fer the moon to rise and liKht them on their march, the men (rathi'red round the flres and chatted about the coming fifflit and its jiossibilities, and listened to an im- promptu concert by the men of C Company. About half-past eleven, when the moon, now past the full, was high enough to set forward by, every fire was carefully extinguished, and the force in waggon and saddle was soon pushing rapidly westward in the wake of the scouts and police skirmishers who had gone in advance. Under the weird light of the moon the trail was plain in sight, but the oopsej through which RUSH ;-DLiSH ' \ - \ > ■ ^ . ' 1 < X CD O o O i (; . - \ ■ i o o ''"., « -' in ■ "f^f ^^^OOED BANKS - -• - ■""'^■" • ' '-'" \yT :