Episode 3
The story behind the bloody Battle of Seven Oaks in Canada on June 1816, between a colony of ragged, half-starved Scottish colonists and a band of M茅tis buffalo hunters.
Eachdraidh eilthireach nan G脿idheal. Tha D貌mhnall Moireasdan ag 矛nnse eachdraidh nan eilthireach Gh脿idhealach a bha an s脿s ann an obair nam bian an ceann a tuath Aimeireagaidh. Bha G脿idheil air gach taobh anns an t-sr矛 eadar Companaidh B脿gh Hudson agus na Nor' Westers.
In June 1816, a bloody skirmish erupted between a colony of ragged, half-starved Scottish colonists and a band of M茅tis buffalo hunters in Seven Oaks, in what is now Winnipeg, Canada. It was the opening salvo in the quintessential North American struggle between a free-booting wilderness existence and a new economy of barbed-wire and borders.
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