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Battle of Frenchman's Butte
The Battle of Frenchman's Butte, fought on May 28, 1885, occurred when the Alberta Field Force attacked a force of Cree, dug in on a hillside near Frenchman's Butte.
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The battlefield is located in what was then the District of Saskatchewan of the North-West Territories, now the province of Saskatchewan.[1]
Background
Members of a band of Cree led by war chief Wandering Spirit, living in what is now central Alberta and Saskatchewan joined the North-West Rebellion of 1885 after the government forces' defeat at the Battle of Duck Lake.
The starving fighters seized food and supplies from several white settlements and captured Fort Pitt, taking prisoners. Major-GeneralThomas 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.
He was reinforced by three infantry units from the east, bringing his forces to