This fight between rival fur trading companies took place today in 1816. Wiki here. (Known to the Métis as la Victoire de la Grenouillière, or the Victory of Frog Plain). It involved Pemmican - a food stuff - the word based on a Cree word meaning 'fat and grease'.
American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
Saturday, 19 June 2010
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War On the Turrle's Back
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