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Pershing in Montana Life and the Riel Rebellion
The article recalls General John J. Pershing as a young lieutenant at Fort Assiniboine who peacefully resolved Cree fugitives after the Riel rebellion. It highlights his later rapid rise, praised by Montanans, and his Philippine and Mexican campaigns, with notes on his family and Nebraska connections.
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Pershing
Old Fort Assiniboine
Riel
Montana
John J. Pershing
France
Fort Assiniboine
Redman
Assiniboine
Army
United States
Philippines
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Congress
Moro
United States Army
George Washington
Miss Warren
West Point
University of Nebraska
Department of Mindanao
Bud Bagsak
Bell
Virginia
Edgerton
Harper’s Ferry
Brown
John Brown
Harper's Ferry
H. G. Blake
Philadelphia
Alexander M.boetler
Charleston
Congressman Boetler