User blog:Elgb333/Texas Rangers vs North-West Mounted Police



As my trek into the 19th century comes to a bloody end, I present to you a spectacular appetizer before my greatest battle yet. Today in Deadliest Fiction we are pitting two of the most iconic police force in North America!

Texas Rangers: The Western gunsfighters who protected beloved Texas from Mexicans, Indians and Outlaws!

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North-West Mounted Police: The men in the red coats who who kept the peace of the icy White North!

No rules. No safety. No Mercy. It's a duel to the death. To decide who is?...

'THE DEADLIEST WARRIOR! '

Texas Rangers
In the wake of Texas' independence from Mexico, there was no military presence to keep ordinary citizens safe from bandits and other criminals. Stephen F. Austin formed the Texas Rangers in 1823 to keep the peace throughout the countryside. In 1835, they were officially recognized as a police force. The Texas Rangers were unofficially created by Stephen F. Austin in a call-to-arms written in 1823 and were first headed by Captain Morris. Ten years later, on August 10, 1835 Daniel Parker introduced a resolution to the Permanent Council creating a body of rangers to protect the border. The unit was dissolved by the federal authorities during the post–Civil War Reconstruction Era, but was quickly reformed upon the reinstitution of home government.

The Texas Rangers grew to be Texas' front line of defense against bandits, gunslingers, and hostile Native Americans during the time of the Old West. They also fought in several wars, such as the Texas Revolution, Mexican-American War, Civil War, American Indian Wars and the Mason County War. The Rangers have taken part in many of the most important events of Texas history, such as stopping the assassination of Presidents William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in El Paso, Texas, and in some of the best-known criminal cases in the history of the Old West, such as those of gunfighter John Wesley Hardin, bank robber Sam Bass, and outlaws Bonnie and Clyde. The Texas Rangers are still active today, with a statute making sure that they are safe from being disbanded.

North-West Mounted Police
The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) was a Canadian police force. On 3 May 1873, Sir John A. Macdonald introduced a bill to establish a police force, para-military in nature, in the Northwest Territories. On 23 May the bill was passed; and, after receiving royal assent, the North West Mounted Police came into being. The NWMP's early activities included containing the whisky trade and enforcing agreements with the First Nations peoples; to that end, the commanding officer of the force arranged to be sworn in as a justice of the peace, which allowed for magisterial authority within the Mounties' jurisdiction. In the early years, the force's dedication to enforcing the law on behalf of the First Nations peoples impressed the latter enough to encourage good relations between them and the Crown. They were also the police force that took charge during the Klondike Gold Rush.

In 1885, the NWMP helped to quell the North-West Rebellion led by Louis Riel. They suffered particularly heavy losses during the Battle of Duck Lake, but saw little other active combat. In 1920, the jurisdiction of the RNWMP was extended throughout the entire nation and, in recognition of this added responsibility, the name of the Force was changed to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The wheel had come full circle: the Force that marched from east to west marched back east fifty years later.

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Texas Rangers vs North-West Mounted Police

90 - Training - 98

When the Texas Rangers first started out, they were essentially a poorly funded militia. The Rangers themselves were either recruited or volunteered. Although their selection rate was difficult, there was no formal military training involved in their early beginnings. The Mounted Police on the other hand, was a formally established police force which had proper ranks and funding from the government.

100 - Experience - 88

In its short life span the Mounted Police only fought in very few conflicts, most of which happened during the North-West rebellion. The sad part is that the Mounted Police only won one battle in that war. The Rangers on the other hand fought through in numerous wars and gunfights, and many were veterans of this war and were talented scouts as well.