Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier

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Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier (11 June 1846 – 25 February 1901), commonly known as L.N.F. Crozier, was a Canadian militia officer and a superintendent of the North-West Mounted Police, now best remembered for his role in the North-West Rebellion of 1885, a resistance movement headed by Métis leader Louis Riel in what is now the modern province of Saskatchewan.

On March 26, 1885, Crozier lead a group of approximately 100 mounted police and volunteers from Fort Carlton to confront the Métis near Duck Lake, Saskatchewan. In the ensuing Battle of Duck Lake, the NWMP were routed by the Métis. Crozier's role in the remainder of the rebellion was minimal, and his force largely remained at its post in Battleford, Saskatchewan. Nevertheless, he was on April 1 promoted to assistant commissioner of the NWMP, a post which he held until his forced retirement in 1886. He spent his later years in as a merchant and banker in Oklahoma, dying of a heart attack in Cushing, Oklahoma on 25 February 1901.