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3 unusual facts about Battle of Fort Pitt


Battle of Fort Pitt

In the Canadian North-West, a period of escalating unrest immediately preceded the rebellion as Ottawa refused to negotiate with its disaffected citizens.

Rather, he had tried to unify the Cree into a political confederacy powerful enough to oppose the marginalization of native people in Canadian society and renegotiate unjust land treaties imposed on Saskatchewan natives in the 1860s.

Six days later, Inspector Dickens and his men reached safety at Battleford.



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