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Map of the 1806 Red River Expedition's route. Published by Nich. King, 1806. On April 19, 1806, the now-24-member party (Freeman and his two assistants; Sparks, who commanded the military party, with two officers, seventeen privates, and a servant) pushed off in two flat-bottomed barges and a pirogue from Fort Adams, near Natchez, Mississippi, and turned into the Red River to go upstream to ...
The Red River campaign, also known as the Red River expedition, [1] was a major Union offensive campaign in the Trans-Mississippi theater of the American Civil War, the campaign taking place from March 10 to May 22, 1864.
The Wolseley expedition was a military force authorized by Canadian Prime Minister John A. Macdonald to confront Louis Riel and the Métis in 1870, during the Red River Rebellion, at the Red River Colony in what is now the province of Manitoba. The expedition was also intended to counter American expansionist sentiments
There were many smaller logjams on the Red River. [2] According to one history of the Natchitoches section of Louisiana, "Campti is the oldest town on Red river, is a fine old town, and is named after an old Indian chief Campte. It was in remote days, a great outfitting place for North Louisiana and Arkansas territory.
Red River Expedition (1806), by the United States to explore the American West; Red River Expedition (1852), up the Red River of the South in the States of Louisiana and Texas; Red River Expedition (1856), by the U.S. Army up the Red River of the North from the Mississippi River into the Minnesota Territory (future State of Minnesota)
The following is the organization of the Confederate forces engaged in the Red River campaign, during the American Civil War in 1864. Order of battle shows the army organization during the campaign. The Union order of battle is listed separately. [1]
He took part with distinction in the Red River expedition (1870–71) [3] and the Ashanti operations of 1873–74 under Wolseley and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1874. [ 4 ] Butler married on 11 June 1877 Elizabeth Thompson , an accomplished painter of battle scenes, notably The Roll Call (1874), Quatre Bras (1875 ...
[2] [3] He commanded 250 men of his battalion during the Wolseley expedition, in Canada, combatting the Red River Rebellion. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] For his services in the campaign Feilden was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George , although during operations he was criticized by soldier Sam Steele for being "too cautious about ...