From the forgoing accounts it will be seen that while
no one saw the whole of the fighting at Batoche, each
man who writes saw something worth recording. The
loss on our own side is of course well known as stated



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already, but the rebel loss ia not now, and may never be
known. Our people claimed that there were some sixty
or seventy killed, but the rebels themselves pot then:
killed at only nine or ten. In the same way Colonel
Otter, afler his retreat from Cut Knife, thought he had
fought a^^ainst six hundred men and that he had killed
from sixty to one hundred and twenty-five ot them.
When the troth came to he known, however, it was found
that he had been defeated by only two hundred and fifty
men, and that of these he had killed only six, or at
most seven.
The instances of individual heroism were numerous,
but there was no more gallant action than that performed
by poor Captain Frendi on Saturday, which has been
already related.
^_ LIEUTENA2*T howabd.
