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Seven Oaks, Battle of

Years: 1816 - 1816

The Battle of Seven Oaks (known to the Métis people as la Victoire de la Grenouillière, or the Victory of Frog Plain; also known as the Seven Oaks Massacre) is a violent confrontation between the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and the North West Company, rival fur-trading companies on June 19, 1816, climaxing what has been a long dispute in western Canada.

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

― Aldous Huxley, in Collected Essays (1959)