Ferdinand-Alphonse Oklowski (Polish: Ferdynand Alfons Oklowski) was military officer of Polish

Poland

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 origins. As a colonel

Colonel

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, he took part in the second uprising of the Lower Canada Rebellions as he commanded the Patriote forces in the Battle of Lacolle

Battle of Lacolle (1838)

The Battle of Lacolle was fought on November 7, 1838 between Loyal Lower Canada volunteer forces under Major John Scriver and Lower Canada rebels under Colonel Ferdinand-Alphonse Oklowski. On November 6, on their way to Lacolle, the Patriote rebels had won a first skirmish, but they lost in the...

, on November 6 and November 7, 1838. The Patriote won the first skirmish of November 6 but lost the final confrontation the next day.

See also

• Patriote movement
  Patriote movement
  The Patriote movement was a political movement that existed in Lower Canada from the turning of the 19th century to the Patriote Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 and the subsequent Act of Union of 1840. It was politically embodied by the Parti patriote at the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada...
  
  
• Quebec nationalism
  Quebec nationalism
  Quebec nationalism is a nationalist movement in the Canadian province of Quebec .-1534–1774:Canada was first a french colony. Jacques Cartier claimed it for France in 1534, and permanent French settlement began in 1608. It was part of New France, which constituted all French colonies in North America...
  
  
• Quebec independence movement
• History of Quebec
  History of Quebec
  Quebec has played a special role in Canadian history; it is the site where French settlers founded the colony of Canada in the 17th and 18th centuries.-Paleoindian Era :...
  
  
• Timeline of Quebec history
  Timeline of Quebec history
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