The
battle of Seven Oaks took place in
1816 during the blockade of the
Red River Settlement by the
Hudson's Bay Company, part of its continuing dispute with the
North West Company. Hudson's Bay Company forces attacked a party of
Métis, led by
Cuthbert Grant, who had seized a supply of Hudson's Bay Company
pemmican and were travelling to a meeting with traders of the North West Company to whom they intended to sell it. The Métis repulsed the attack, and were later exonerated by a
royal commissioner[?] appointed to investigate the incident. Grant later became an important figure in the Hudson's Bay Company after its merger with the North West Company.