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Updated: May 19, 2025
There was placed in charge of our division the most powerful plain-ranger in the service of the company, the one person of all others, who might control the natives in case of an outbreak and that man was Cuthbert Grant. Pierre, the minstrel, and six clerks were also in the party; but what could a handful of moderate men do with a horde of Indians and Metis wrought up to a fury of revenge?
At a word from Grant, the men swung across the enemy's course sickle-shape; but they were furious at this disciplined restraint. From horn to horn of the crescent, rode the plain-ranger, lashing horses back to the circle and shaking his fist in the quailing face of many a bold rebel. Both sides advanced within a short distance of each other.
"Perhaps they've taken a few old fellows prisoners to ensure the fort's good behavior, while we save our bacon," I suggested. "If they have, those Highlanders will go to Fort Douglas shining bald as a red ball," answered the plain-ranger. In this, Grant did his people injustice; for of those prisoners taken by the advance guard, not a hair of their heads was injured.
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