Steele's Scouts: Samuel Benfield and the Northwest Rebellion

by Wayne Brown

Book Overview

After a fatal encounter between Louis Riel's M?tis rebels and the North West Mounted Police at Duck Lake in March 1885, the Canadian government mobilized forces in both Ontario and Alberta to suppress what became known as "The Northwest Rebellion." The western force was assembled in Calgary by Gunner Jingo Strange, a retired major general who readily knew the right man to lead an advance unit: Samuel Benfield Steele. He called them "Steele's Scouts."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1894384148
• ISBN13: 9781894384148
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Heritage House
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.