Red River Rebellion (1869-1870)
The Red River Rebellion (or the Red River Resistance, Red River uprising, or First Riel Rebellion) was the sequence of events that led up to the 1869 establishment of a provisional government by the Métis leader Louis Riel and his followers at the Red River Colony, in what is now the Canadian province of Manitoba. For a period it had been a territory called Rupert's Land under control of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Journey Through the Wilderness
Garnet Wolseley's Canadian Red River Expedition of 1870
From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 #5
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