the front we should have been attacked in the ravine and probably wiped out". With night coming on, Middleton, distressed by the casualties he was taking, opted for retreat. At the battle's end, both sides had withdrawn from the battlefield but the Métis had inflicted greater casualties and had delayed Middleton's march on the Métis' headquarters at Batoche. Weeks later, after news reached him of the Cree victory over Colonel William Dillon Otter – to whom had been issued a Gatling gun – at Cut Knife, Middleton arrived at Batoche. Maps Military Battlefield Map of Fish Creek Military Map of Fish Creek view 1 Military Map of Fish Creek view 2 Military Map of Fish Creek Rifle Pits Legacy The site of the battle was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1923. In the spring of 2008, Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Christine Tell proclaimed in Duck Lake, that "the 125th commemoration, in 2010, of the 1885 Northwest Resistance is an excellent opportunity to tell the story of the prairie Métis and First Nations peoples' struggle with Government forces and how it has shaped Canada today." The Battle of Fish Creek National Historic Site, now named Tourond's Coulée / Fish Creek National Historic Site, preserves the battlefield of April 24, 1885 at la coulée des Tourond , and the story of Madame Tourond's home. The National Historic site of Middleton's camp and graveyard is across the Fish Creek water body and is north west of the theatre of battle which occurred in the creek valley west of the Tourond farmhouse site. See also List of battles won by indigenous peoples of the Americas Footnotes References "Battle of Fish Creek". National Parks and National Historic Sites of Canada. Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the chief executive officer of Parks Canada. 2007. Retrieved 20 September 2009. Battle of Tourond's Coulee / Fish Creek. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 6 August 2012. Carnie, L. R. (1935). Reminiscence Early Days In Battleford and With Middleton's Columns. Saskatchewan, ON: The Herald. "Famous 1885 Battle Site Gains New Name" (Press release). Ottawa: Parks Canada. 17 November 2007. Panet, Charles Eugène (1886). Report upon the suppression of the rebellion in the North-West Territories and matters in connection therewith, in 1885: Presented to Parliament. Ottawa: Department of Militia and Defence. p. 20. Morton, Desmond (1972). The Last War Drum: