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  Battle of Cut Knife - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Behind the camp was Cut Knife Hill, and on both sides of it were ravines filled with bushes and trees.
At the start of the battle, they seemed to have every disadvantage: they were outnumbered, they were attacked by surprise, and they even had so little ammunition that some warriors had to shoot pebbles instead of bullets.
The Battle of Cut Knife was the NWMP's worst defeat and the Cree and Assiniboine's greatest victory.
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 List of battles (geographic) - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The battles on this page are organized by country, that is, by the present location of the battlefield, not by the countries which participated in the battle.
Battle of Quebec (1759) - Seven Years' War, includes the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
Battle of Grotnik - 1439 - Polish rebellion*Battle of Grunwald - 1410
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 Knife Review : Battle Mistress from Busse Combat (straight handled version)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The knife was over a period of time subjected to various types of work to examine its durability, strength and overall toughness as compared to a few other blades over a range of tasks.
The Battle Mistress was on occasion used to cut up some hard materials, bones, wire and the occasional harder bit of steel such as nails with little damage [ref].
The knife is also generally much more versatile at general cutting chores and handles heavier wood work like bucking and splitter much better as it will in general bind less and is much stiffer than the machetes.
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 Battle of Cedynia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Battle of Cedynia occurred on 24 June (Click link for more info and facts about 972) 972 in (Click link for more info and facts about Cedynia) Cedynia.
It was the first historically recorded battle in the history of (A republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II) Poland.
Information about this battle is found in the Gall Anonim Chronicle and the Thietmar Chronicle.
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 American Handgunner: Blood Of The Cut: The Mental Aspects Of Knife Fighting
The horrors of receiving a cut in a knife fight can only be exceeded by the horrors of delivering a cut, or a bullet, in a defensive or pre-emptive strike.
Although many of us have received a paper cut, cut ourselves shaving or even had a few stitches from a bad slip with a knife, very few of us have shared the experience of separating flesh deeply enough to see the glistening white of sinew or the naked horror of our own bone.
Primary cuts include the slash, an example of which is O.J. Simpson's infamous ear-to-ear severing of Nicole's neck, Another primary type of cut is the hack, for which we have adequate examples in Jeffery Dahlmer's victims.
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 Cut Knife, Battle of   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This battle took place west of Battleford in what is now Saskatchewan, on May 2, 1885, during the North-West Rebellion.
It was a victory for the Cree and Stoney in Chief Poundmaker's camp, who routed over 300 government soldiers commanded by Colonel William Otter.
Only eight of Otter's force died in the battle; native losses were five or six.
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 Battle of Cut Knife -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
His force was made up of 75 North West Mounted Police ((A highly mobile army unit) cavalry), several small units of Canadian army regulars, and various volunteers and militia.
Fine Day, the Cree commander who had won the battle, fled to the (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) United States.
Many people have compared this battle to the (A battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were suppo) Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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 North-West Rebellion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The reversal, though not decisive enough to ultimately alter the outcome of the war, halted Major General Frederick Middleton's advance on Batoche, where the Métis would later make their final stand.
On May 2 Lieutenant Colonel William Otter was defeated by native chief Poundmaker at the Battle of Cut Knife near Battleford.
The Metis quickly ran out of ammunition and resorted to firing pebbles from their guns, until they were forced to retreat.
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 Edinburgh Evening News - Top Stories - Licence scheme unveiled in drive to cut knife crime   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
She said the new measures would help cut the number of knife-related assaults, which account for about half of the country’s murders.
And she said the crackdown should send a clear message that knife crime was unacceptable and would not be tolerated.
Ministers have already consulted, as part of the Police Bill agenda, on plans to double the maximum sentence for carrying a knife, give the police an unconditional power of arrest when they suspect someone of carrying a knife or offensive weapon, and increase the age for buying a non-domestic knife from 16 to 18.
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 -=[QoR]=- The Queen's Own Rifles | Medicine Hat, AB
In 1863 the name changed to 2nd Battalion "Queen's Own Rifles of Toronto." It was under this name that the regiment fought at the Battle of Ridgeway, during the Fenian Raids of 1866.
Twenty one battle honours, were won during the war.
By the war's end 7,562 Queen's Own had served overseas, of these 1,254 were killed in action, died of wounds or of other causes.
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 Desi Hot OR Hot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cree and Assiniboine warriors won the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
Prime Minister John A. Macdonald considered the project to be vital to Canada.
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 Manitoba Pageant: Poundmaker
Poundmaker, a chief of the Cree nation, was born near Battle ford, Saskatchewan in 1826.
On the outbreak of the North West Rebellion he besieged Battle ford, and later commanded the Indians at the battles of Cut Knife Creek and Batoche.
Such was Poundmaker, Chief of the Plain Crees, who had made peace between the Crees and their old enemies the Blackfoot and who, after defeating Colonel Otter at the Battle of Cut Knife Creek in 1885, had treated his prisoners well.
www.mhs.mb.ca /docs/pageant/06/poundmaker.shtml   (715 words)

  
 Virtual Saskatchewan - Cree Chief Poundmaker
The ensuing Battle of Duck Lake resulted in nine militiamen and three Mounties killed in a fight with Metis forces that included several Indians.
But the Crown's misinterpretation of Poundmaker's role at Cut Knife Creek, as well as at Battleford, helped seal his fate before the Regina jury that convicted him of felony-treason.
After the Battle of Cut Knife Hill, a radical element of the warrior's group held sway, according to Tyrone Tootoosis, Eric's nephew and an oral historian who lives in Saskatoon.
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 Politics in Cut Knife SASKATCHEWAN Canada - Pagelite Search The Canadian Web Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
While in Cut Knife, he has served on the Cut Knife...
all knife owners to register all of their sharp metal weapons of destruction.
In the rural riding of Battleford-Cut Knife, the Saskatchewan Party's Wally Lorenz was handily outpaced...
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 The Funeral Directory - Once Upon a Tomb - Saskachewan
Maybe it was the storm that followed us or maybe it was the mosquitoes that put us in a fighting mood, but the battle sites were captivating.
Other graveyards that tell the story of the 1885 rebellion include the police cemetery at Fort Battleford where NWMP members who died in the battles are buried.
After a trial of sorts during which they had no legal counsel at all, they were sentenced to hang and their bodies were put in a common grave on the hillside.
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 Pitikwahanapiwiyin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the North-West Rebellion, Poundmaker's followers laid siege to Fort Battleford, Saskatchewan.
A military force led by Colonel William Dillon Otter attacked Poundmaker's camp near Cut Knife Hill, but was forced to retreat.
Poundmaker, who had not taken part in the fight, prevented the warriors from pursuing the soldiers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pitikwahanapiwiyin   (198 words)

  
 Poundmaker, Big Bear, and the Northwest Rebellion: Part 1
Fort Battleford's town is ransacked, the Frog Lake Massacre, the burning of Fort Pitt, the Battle of Cut Knife Hill, the Battle of Frenchman Butte, the Battle of Loon Lake, and surrender.
The government cut back on the farming instruction, farm equipment, and cattle which had been promised in the treaties.
Battle of Frenchman Butte, the Battle of Loon Lake,
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 Poundmaker: A warrior in love with Peace.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Following this battle Poundmaker wanted to move his tribes west, away from the conflict, but the warriors and militants were in control.
They recounted a story where Poundmaker replaced a knife taken from one of the teamsters by a warrior by one of his own.
He did not confront the warrior, simply took a knife out of his pocket and gave it to the boy.
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 Monarchy-Free Canada / Replacements for the Queen on Canadian Currency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He was killed in the Battle of Moraviantown in southwestern Upper Canada, probably by mounted American militiamen.
Although he urged restraint during the Battle of Cut-Knife Creek in the 1885 North-West Rebellion, he was jailed for "treason-felony", and died shortly after his release, a broken and embittered man. Only later was he acknowledged for his uncompromising role as a peacemaker and defender of his people.
Through his role in the victory at the battle of the Châteauguay, de Salaberry became a celebrated and legendary historical figure.
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 Cut Knife, Battle of
On 2 May 1885, during the NORTH-WEST REBELLION, Cree and Assiniboine natives defeated 300 soldiers commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel William OTTER in the Battle of Cut Knife.
Using a limited number of men, war chief Fine Day virtually surrounded and pinned down Otter's force on an exposed plain.
The battlefield is on the Poundmaker Reserve, about 40 km west of Battleford, Saskatchewan, just north of Cut Knife Hill, a feature named for a Sarcee warrior who died near there.
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 INDIAN HISTORY 1700-1999
At Battleford students rations are cut from a pound and a half of beef per day to a quarter pound.
Five hundred and sixty seven men, women and children are cut from rations and the winter is a severe one.
Eight of Ottor's men died and 5-6 of Cut Knife's men also were killed.
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 Daniel Davis
During the summer of 1876, the American Army was heavily involved with it's war against the Sioux and the group's arrival in Bismark coincided, almost to the day, with the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Davis, stationed at Battleford during the North West Rebellion, saw action at the Battle of Cut Knife Hill.
At least two of the native people killed during that battle had been in the group which Davis escorted three years earlier.
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 Canadian Military Heritage
Battle of Cut Knife Hill, 2 May 1885.
The column then veered southwest, where scouts had located some Indian marauders responsible for murder and extortion in and around Battleford.
Advancing by night towards the Indian camp near Cut Knife Hill, Otter was discovered before he could attack, thereby losing the advantage of surprise.
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 Off-Shore IronChef
Flay suffers a knife cut early in battle and then electric shocks from his electric oven.
In Japan, the cutting board and the knife is sacred.
With the battle over, the spoils are left to the court - the stage guests who taste at Kaga-san's table.
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 Talking in Cut Knife SASKATCHEWAN Canada - Pagelite Search The Canadian Web Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Clayton McLain Memorial Museum in Cut Knife, Saskatchewan, $500, to restore the platform of the CP...
Otter at Cut Knife Hill in southern Saskatchewan...
To cut lines into the ivory he uses a commercial knife handle fitted...
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 BBC NEWS | Scotland | Fresh efforts to cut knife crime
It also includes a range of proposals to improve the way decisions are taken on marches and parades in line with the recommendations in Sir John Orr's review, published last month.
Other plans include giving the police the unconditional power to arrest someone suspected of carrying a knife.
Scotland has the third highest rate of murders from stabbing in Europe with half of all homicides caused by blades.
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 Canadian Military Heritage
Eager to enter the field of battle, he was determined to get a transfer to that unit.
In the battle of Cut Knife Hill, a bullet passed right through Pelletier's left thigh, without, however, breaking the bone.
While serving in the B Battery ambulance service, Pelletier became acquainted with Gaston Labat, a Frenchman who had come to Canada after the Franco-Prussian War; his is a name that will appear again in these pages.
www.cmhg.gc.ca /cmh/en/page_737.asp   (472 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | Cambridgeshire | Amnesty to cut rising knife crime
There will be four secure bins across the city where people will be able to drop their knives anonymously 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Chief Insp Steve Selves said the amnesty was aimed at making the city a safer place to live and work.
"Over the past 12 months we have seen a steady increase in the number of crimes reported to us which have involved a knife, including street robberies, assaults and disorders - which will not be tolerated," he said.
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