 During the North-West Rebellion, the community of Batoche served as the ad hoc capital of the Louis Riel's Provisional Government of Saskatchewan.Following a succession of losses to the Métis and their aboriginal allies at Duck Lake, Fort Pitt, Fish Creek, and Cut Knife, the Canadian militia serving under British officer Middleton finally succeeded in defeating the Métis resistance at Batoche on May 12, 1885.Louis Riel later turned himself in to the North West Field Force on May 15, 1885.