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Graeme Decarie and Donald Graves, Canadian Historians
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First Nations warriors fighting each other at the Battle of ChippawaDecarie: There's almost really two battles. We had the battle between the two lines, the red and the grey right here, but in the woods behind us, there was another equally savage battle.Graves: The climactic infantry battle was fought right here, but in the woods over there to the west, there's a separate battle going on. And this is the civil war between the Native Nations of North America. You have 350, 400 warriors on both sides fighting in the woods, skirmish warfare, bush warfare, assisted by some light infantry on both sides. And there's a very short, vicious, bloody, sanguinary contest in those woods. The eyewitnesses talk about the war whoops they can hear issuing out of those woods. When it's over, the British native warriors and their light infantry support fall back north of the Chippawa. But it would be fair to say that for the native peoples, this was one of the bloodiest engagements of the war. There were very high casualty rates suffered in those woods. |
