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	Crozier, Leif Newry Fitzroy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Crozier, Leif Newry Fitzroy, soldier, policeman (b at Newry, Ire 11 June 1846; d in Oklahoma, US 25 Feb 1901).
		Prominent in earlier native-police relations, Crozier's career was blighted in March 1885 when, ignoring approaching reinforcements, he bravely but impetuously led a party of Mounted Police and volunteers against a superior force of Métis at DUCK LAKE.
		Crozier resigned in 1886 after John A. Macdonald passed him over to appoint a civilian NWMP commissioner.
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	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Crozier was to distribute presents to the Indians of the Fort Carlton area, who would come under the proposed agreement.
		Crozier was forced to admit he had not been paying attention to them, and he made concessions to appease the constables.
		Crozier kept watch on the situation and in early 1885 he was pleading with Ottawa to come to terms with Riel and the Métis: “I must strongly urge that these and other matters.
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	Reference Encyclopedia - Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier
		On March 26, 1885, Crozier lead a group of approximately 100 mounted police and volunteers from Fort Carlton to confront the Métis near Duck Lake, Saskatchewan.
		In the ensuing battle of Duck Lake, the NWMP were routed by the Métis.
		Nevertheless, he was on April 1 promoted to assistant commissioner of the NWMP, a post which he held until his forced retirement in 1886.
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	North-West Rebellion - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Catholic priest father Albert Lacombe obtained assurances from Crowfoot that his Blackfoot warriors would not participate.
		On March 26, 1885, Dumont defeated a small group of English settlers and North-West Mounted Police lead by superintendent Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier at Duck Lake, outside Batoche.
		In response, the federal government sent 3000 troops under Major General Frederick Middleton to the area, where Middleton incorporated the 2000 English volunteers and NWMP who had organized themselves since Duck Lake.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/North-West_Rebellion (663 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		They believed that a verdict of not guilty would be interpreted by the Indians as a sign of weakness.
		The case was tried before Lieutenant-Colonel James Farquharson Macleod, a magistrate and the commissioner of the NWMP, and Superintendent Leif* Newry Fitzroy Crozier, a justice of the peace.
		The jury of six white men, including former mounted policemen, deliberated for nearly 24 hours before returning a verdict of not guilty.
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		He spent his later years in as a merchant and banker in Oklahoma, dying of a heart attack in Cushing, Oklahoma on 25 February, 1901.
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		Crozier, Major L.N., Inspector Commanding Fort Walsh during Sitting Bull's Residence in Canada.
		Crozier, Major L.N., Superintendent of N.W.M.P. Home ] [ Search ]
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