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Topic: need help with red river settlement

Posted By: Joke Magician
Subject: need help with red river settlement
Date Posted: 01-Dec-2005 at 18:21

yo, why did Thomas Scott get executed in the red river settlement.

Thnx for replin' Dawg no jokin guys

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Posted By: Dawn
Date Posted: 01-Dec-2005 at 18:56

Scott made an attempt to escape but was recaptured by Riel's men and was summarily executed for committing insubordination.

See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Scott

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Posted By: Jay.
Date Posted: 02-Dec-2005 at 09:43

Originally posted by Dawn

See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Scott - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Scott

every good resource.

Thomas Scott (c. 1842 � 1870) was an Irish-born Canadian and fervent Orangeman who was arrested while attempting to overthrow the provisional government of the Red River Settlement during the Red River Rebellion of 1870. While imprisoned Scott constantly threatened and insulted guards, and threatened that he would assassinate Louis Riel upon gaining his freedom. Scott made an attempt to escape but was recaptured by Riel's men and was summarily executed for committing insubordination.

Charles Boulton's Memoirs of the North West Rebellions cites M�tis leader John Bruce's claim that only two bullets from the firing squad actually hit Scott, wounding him once in the left shoulder, and once in the upper chest. A man stepped forward and discharged his pistol close to Scott's head, but the bullet only penetrated the upper part of the left cheek and came out somewhere near the cartilage of the nose. Still not dead, Scott was placed in a kind of coffin, from which he was later reported to cry:

"For God's sake take me out of here or kill me."

Though relatively unknown during his lifetime, Scott's death made him a martyr. He had always been contemptuous and violent, having been convicted of violence and assault when he, leading a band of his co-workers, almost drowned his employer over the issue of a pay raise.

Scott's execution led to outrage in Ontario, and was largely responsible for prompting the Wolseley Expedition, which forced Louis Riel, now branded a murderer, to flee the settlement.

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Posted By: Jay.
Date Posted: 02-Dec-2005 at 09:44

Originally posted by Jay.

every good resource.

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I mean "*Very"

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Posted By: Nick1986
Date Posted: 23-Aug-2012 at 19:12

What was the long-term aim of the Red River insurgents? Union with the US, total independence as a sovereign nation, or greater autonomy as part of a British-ruled dominion?

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