. History of Saskatchewan and the Old North West. le) on the 25th. OuAppelle was selectedas the primary base as it was the place nearest to Winnipeg with directtrail to , Riels hea(U|uarters. Aliddletons plan was to move with the principal column direct to ClarksCrossing, a telegraph station and ferry on the -South Saskatchewan, aboutforty-four miles by trail from Patoche. The second column under Lieutenant-Colonel Oiter of the permanentmilitia was to proceetl from .Swift Current, about one hundred and fifty291 292 HISTORY OF THE PRO\ IXCE OF SASKATCHEWAN miles west of South OuAppcllc.
. History of Saskatchewan and the Old North West. le) on the 25th. OuAppelle was selectedas the primary base as it was the place nearest to Winnipeg with directtrail to , Riels hea(U|uarters. Aliddletons plan was to move with the principal column direct to ClarksCrossing, a telegraph station and ferry on the -South Saskatchewan, aboutforty-four miles by trail from Patoche. The second column under Lieutenant-Colonel Oiter of the permanentmilitia was to proceetl from .Swift Current, about one hundred and fifty291 292 HISTORY OF THE PRO\ IXCE OF SASKATCHEWAN miles west of South OuAppcllc. on the main line of the Canadian PacificRailway, which town Middleton intended subsequently making his chief was to meet him at Clarkes Crossing-, when the two columns wouldadvance, one on each side of the ri\er, to attack They were thento separate, one marching to Prince Albert and the other to Battleford,where in the meantime the Mountcrl Police were to be reinforccil bv a detach-ment unfler PISTIXGUISII Kl) OFFICEIiMajor-Goiioral Straiij;o. Col Lieut-Co!. Wi: at )General The third main cnhnnn. under r^lajor .Strange, was to overawethe Indians in the Calgary district, march north to Edmonton and comedown the \ortli Saskatchewan to Fort Piit. There IMiddleton lujped tomeet him. .\fter the junction of their two columns he intended to disposeof Big band. Meantime, mnnnted scouts were to patrol east andwest of the Cyjiress llilK between the Canadian Pacific Railway and theAmerican frontier, as information had been received that a body of threehundred Chicago Fenians iiad boiuul themselves together by oath to invadeCanada in <upiiort of the rebel llalfbrced-. Ft they came tlie\- were expected HISTORY OK THE IROVKXCE OF SASKATCHEWAN 293 to head for Moose Jaw in tlic first instance. Furthermore, tliis force wasintended to prevent retreat to the United States on the ])art of defeatedrebels a
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