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Battle of Cut Knife Creek, 1885
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Record information Battle of Cut Knife Creek, 1885
Date:1885Type of material:ArtFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:2837539Date(s):1885Bilingual equivalent:Place:Toronto (Ont.):Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedPublisher:The Grip Printing and Publishing Company,Place of printing:Toronto (Ont.)Extent:1 print / estampe : colour lithograph on wove paper
Support 53.300 x 71.500 cmScope and content:There are 3 other copies [one badly damaged] of this print in the same folder, drawer A521. See also copy of print Coverdale Collection, C-041472.Additional name(s):Additional information:General note:By W.D. Blatchly from sketches by Capt. Rutherford and Lieut. R. Lyndhurst Wadmore. (unverified)
The Battle of Cut Knife was fought on May 2, 1885. It occurred when a small force of Cree and Assiniboine were attacked by 325 troops composed of North-West Mounted Police, "B" Battery, "C" Company, Foot Guards, Queen's Own and the Battleford Rifles led by Lt. Col. W.D. Otter. The Cree and Assiniboine defeated the Canadian forces, with losses on both sides.
The North-West Rebellion (or North-West Resistance) was a five-month insurgency against the Canadian government, fought mainly by the Métis and their First Nations allies.Availability of other formats note:Colour transparency availableSignatures and inscriptions note:Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: On the stone, l.r. on image: W.D. Blatchly/l.l., below image: PUBLISHED BY GRIP P.P. CO. TORONTO; b.c.: Entered according to Act of Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, by The GRIP Printing and Publishing Company of Toronto, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture; l.r.: TORONTO LITHOGRAPHING CO./b.c.: BATTLE OF CUT KNIFE CREEK/From topographical sketches by Capt. Rutherford, of "B" Battery, and Lieut. R. Lyndhurst Wadmore, "C" Company, Infantry School Corps.... (partial)Varying form of title:Subject heading:Source:Private -
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