NARRATIVE OF THE RED RIVER 

 EXPEDITION. 



BY GENERAL VISCOUNT WOLSELEY, G.C.B. 

 [MAG A. DECEMBER 1870-FEBRi'ARY 1871.] 



I. 



WHILST two great Powers were preparing for 

 that fearful war which in 1870 devastated the 

 provinces of France, a small military expedition was 

 being organised on the shores of Lake Superior for an 

 advance into the Eed Eiver Territory. The writer of 

 this article took an active part in the many wild ad- 

 ventures by flood and field encountered during that 

 undertaking, and has good reason to remember with 

 admiration the manner in which all ranks bore their 

 share of the excessive toil and constant exposure en- 

 tailed upon them during that curiously interesting 

 operation. It had been determined upon in the 

 spring, and the circumstances which necessitated it 

 may be briefly described as follows. 



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