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Updated: May 19, 2025
His treatment of the prisoners, his letters to Middleton, and other documents would show Riel's leadership. A letter found in Poundmaker's camp would show his deliberate intention of bringing on this country the calamity of an Indian war.
General Middleton was to attack Riel at Batoche, where the rebel headquarters were; Colonel Otter was to march from Swift Current to the relief of Battleford, where Poundmaker's band was in arms; and General Strange, a veteran of many years' service, was to mobilize at Calgary whatever forces he could muster and go northward into the Big Bear country, to relieve the Edmonton district, settle with Big Bear and release the prisoners he had taken at Frog Lake and Fort Pitt.
Private Arthur Dobbs, Battleford Rifles; Bugler Foulks, School of Infantry; Corporals Laurie and Sleight, and Trumpeter Burke, Mounted Police; Privates Rogers and Osgoode, Governor-General's Foot Guards; Teamster Winder, of Regina. Wounded at Poundmaker's Reserve: Col-Sergt.
Killed at Battleford: Frank Smart, shot on picket. Killed by Indians: John Walkinshaw and Albert Harkness. Killings and Woundings elsewhere: Sergeant Snyder, injured by explosion at Peterboro; Lieut. Killed at Poundmaker's Reserve:
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