The Battle of Batoche is the best-known confrontation between Métis and British soldiers in the Northwest Resistance of 1885. It remains one of Canada’s most emotion-laden memories, chronicling an historic event equivalent to the 1863 battle of Gettysburg. After Batoche, everything changed for the Métis people and for Canada as well, especially in Quebec. The battle decided the future for the Métis people – mixed Cree or Anishinaabe and Scottish or French ancestry who populated the Red River region known today as modern Manitoba, North Dakota, and Minnesota. The battle was the climax of the federal government’s efforts to control the native and settler population of the West. It also changed attitudes in Quebec, which saw widespread outrage over the hanging of rebel leader Louis Riel following the battle; distrusting the Conservative government, French-speaking Quebecois began to feel safe only in Quebec and consequently limited their
expansion into western Canada.
Walter Hildebrandt’s chronicle of the battle, first published at the centenary of the Northwest Resistance in 1985, eloquently revisited and analyzed the strategies of both sides. This redesigned new edition adds sidebars and extended captions, as well as numerous maps and photographs that offer detailed description of the fateful battle. Sidebars focus in detail on topics related to the battle, including Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont as leaders of the Métis resistance; nurse Kate Miller, Canada’s Florence Nightingale; Batoche as the site of the first-ever battlefield photos, taken on horseback during the battle; the Gatling gun as evidence of the newly industrial nature of warfare; and zareba warfare and riflepit trenches as foreshadowing of the trenches of World War One, among other topics.
Recent historiography, in particular, on Métis and First Nations involvement, including the role of women and children, is incorporated into the text, and notes and bibliography are updated.
Foreword by Jean Teillet, great-grandniece of Louis Riel.
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CONTENTS
Maps
Illustrations
List of Sidebars
Foreword by Jean Teillet
Preface to the Revised Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction
Part I
The Battle of Batoche, May 9–12, 1885
Prelude to Battle
May 9: Incapacitating the Northcote
May 9: Firefight for Mission Ridge
May 9: The Métis Offensive
May 9: Building the Zareba
May 10 and 11: A Plan Develops
May 12: The Final Day
After the Battle
Part II
Strategy and Tactics
Riel and Dumont: The Strategy to Defend Batoche
Tactics of the Metis
Middleton and the North-West Field Force
Middleton’s Tactics in Retrospect
Epilogue
Notes
Select Bibliography
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