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The Battle of Seven Oaks in 1816 between Scottish colonists and a band of buffalo hunters.

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 Métis buffalo hunters.

Eachdraidh eilthireach nan Gàidheal. Tha Dòmhnall Moireasdan ag ìnnse eachdraidh nan eilthireach Ghàidhealach a bha an sàs ann an obair nam bian an ceann a tuath Aimeireagaidh. Bha Gàidheil air gach taobh anns an t-srì eadar Companaidh Bàgh 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 Métis 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.

Eachdraidh eilthireach nan Gàidheal. The epic story of Highland migration

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