Ambroise-Dydime Lépine

Ambroise-Dydime Lépine (18 March 1840 – 8 June 1923) was a Métis politician, farmer, and military leader under the command of Louis Riel during the Red River Rebellion of 1869–1870. He was tried and sentenced to death for his role in the execution of Thomas Scott, but his sentence was commuted to five years exile by the Governor General of Canada.

Ambroise appeared in the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at the 1889 Exposition Universelle.

Early life Ambroise-Dydime Lépine was born in St. Vital in the Red River Colony on 18 March 1840, Ambroise-Dydime was educated at the Collège de Saint-Boniface. In March, there was a revolt amongst the Métis against Lépine's conduct that was ended when Riel talked down the rebels and reprimanded Lépine.

When Colonel Garnet Wolseley arrived in the Red River Colony with his forces on 24 August 1870, Riel and Lépine fled to a Catholic mission in the US Dakota Territory. They spent the next year making constant crossings of the border.