Wolseley expedition

Wolseley expedition
Part of Red River Rebellion
Red River Expedition at Kakabeka Falls by Frances Anne Hopkins, 1877
Date 1870 Location Fort Garry (modern-day Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) Result Bloodless Government victory; Government forces capture Fort Garry Louis Riel escapes
Belligerents
Canada  United Kingdom	Métis
Commanders and leaders
Garnet Wolseley	Louis Riel
Casualties and losses
None	No immediate casualties; at least one later killed by militia

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 in northern border states. Leaving Toronto in May, the expedition arrived, after a three-month journey in arduous conditions, at Fort Garry on August 24.^[1] This extinguished Riel's provisional government and eradicated the threat of the American expansion into western Canada.