Following the proclamation of Riel's government at Batoche, Superintendent Leif Crozier at Fort Carlton set out to seize a cache of arms at Duck Lake. While this drawing from the Canadian Illustrated War News suggests the vulnerable position of Crozier's men, it patriotically exaggerates MΘtis losses. Drawn by an artist in Toronto according to verbal accounts, it does not show how Riel forgot his plan and allowed Crozier's police and volunteers to retreat.
