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George Rogers Clark was born on November 19, 1752, in Albemarle County, Virginia, near Charlottesville, the hometown of Thomas Jefferson. [5] [6] He was the second of ten children borne by John and Ann Rogers Clark, who were Anglicans of English and possibly Scottish descent.
The Illinois campaign, also known as Clark's Northwestern campaign, was a series of engagements during the American Revolutionary War in which a small force of Virginia militia led by George Rogers Clark seized control of several British posts in the Illinois Country of the Province of Quebec, located in modern-day Illinois and Indiana in the Midwestern United States.
The siege of Fort Vincennes, also known as the siege of Fort Sackville and the Battle of Vincennes, was a Revolutionary War frontier battle fought in present-day Vincennes, Indiana won by a militia led by American commander George Rogers Clark over a British garrison led by Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton.
— George Rogers Clark, American surveyor, soldier and militia officer (13 February 1818), dying after a stroke "Do not grieve, my friend, my dearest friend. I am ready to go. And John, it will not be long." [4] [6] [note 22] — Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (28 October 1818), to her husband, John Adams "Give me back my youth."
Henry Hamilton surrenders Fort Sackville to George Rogers Clark. Illustration by Frederick Coffay Yohn. In January 1778, Lieutenant Colonel George Rogers Clark of the Kentucky militia was authorized to lead an expedition to seize the British outposts of Kaskaskia and Cahokia on the Mississippi River. Despite having recruited only 175 men, Clark ...
The George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge is expected to partially reopen to vehicle traffic by 6 p.m. Saturday following a Friday semitruck crash and dramatic mid-air rescue.. Firefighters rescued ...
Breathtaking photos and video captured the rescue Friday of the driver in her cab over the side of the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge connecting Louisville, Kentucky, to southern Indiana.
The Battle of Piqua, also known as the Battle of Peckowee, Battle of Pekowi, Battle of Peckuwe and the Battle of Pickaway, was a military engagement fought on August 8, 1780, at the Indian village of Piqua along the Mad River in western Ohio Country between the Kentucky County militia under General George Rogers Clark and Shawnee Indians under Chief Black Hoof.