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2 unusual facts about Thomas Bland Strange


Battle of Frenchman's Butte

Major-General Thomas Bland Strange, a retired British officer living near Calgary, raised a force of cowboys and other white settlers, added to them two units of North-West Mounted Police (NWMP), and headed north.

Joseph-Aldric Ouimet

He was put under the command of Thomas Bland Strange who rejected Ouimet's proposal to negotiate safe passage for Riel.


John D. Lauder

He was part of the Alberta Field Force led by Major General Thomas Bland Strange and served at the battle of Battle of Frenchman's Butte.


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