Riel, LOUIS, a Canadian insurgent, born in Manitoba in 1844, became a leader of the Metis, or French half-breeds, and headed the Red River rebellion in 1869-70, afterwards escaping from the country. In 1885 he again established a rebel government in Manitoba, and in November, the rising having been quelled, he was executed at Regina.
Riel, LOUIS
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 716
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