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the 3d of September. The two militia regiments had 

 been quartered, one in the Lower or Stone Fort, the 

 other in Fort Garry. The regulars had all crossed 

 the height of land near Lake Superior on their return- 

 journey before the 1st of October, and were in their 

 barracks at Quebec and Montreal before the autumn 

 had closed in. 



So ended the Eed Eiver Expedition an under- 

 taking that will long stand out in our military 

 chronicles as possessing characteristics peculiarly its 

 own. The force which landed at Massowah in 1867 

 had to march about 400 miles inland, through an in- 

 habited country where supplies were obtainable, to 

 relieve some British prisoners held captive by a sove- 

 reign, half tyrant, half madman. Europe was in pro- 

 found peace at the time, so all eyes were turned upon 

 its doings. Although there can scarcely be said to- 

 have been any fighting, as we had not even a man 

 killed, still our Ministry was glad to have an oppor- 

 tunity of attracting so much general attention to a 

 military operation entirely English ; and many think 

 that for the millions spent upon it, we, as a nation,, 

 received an equivalent in proving before the world 

 that we were still capable of military enterprise. The 

 force sent to the Eed Eiver for the purpose of crush- 

 ing out rebellion there, had to advance from its point 

 of disembarkation more than 600 miles through a 

 wilderness of water, rocks, and forests, where no sup- 



