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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.
Battle of Waddams Grove: June 18, 1832 Near Waddams Grove, Illinois: Black Hawk War: United States Victory 5-9 United States vs Sauk: Battle of Apple River Fort: June 24, 1832 Near Elizabeth, Illinois: Black Hawk War: United States Victory 1+ United States vs Sauk and Fox: Illinois Mormon War: June 10, 1844 - September 16, 1846 Nauvoo, Illinois ...
In July of 1778, Clark led about 175 men of the Illinois Regiment and crossed the Ohio River at Fort Massac and marched to Kaskaskia, capturing it on the night of July 4 without firing their weapons. [26] The next day, Captain Joseph Bowman and his company captured Cahokia in a similar fashion without firing a shot.
Battle of Alligator Bridge: June 30, 1778: East Florida: British victory Battle of Wyoming: July 3, 1778: Pennsylvania: British-Iroquois victory First Battle of Ushant: July 27, 1778: Bay of Biscay: Indecisive Battle of Newport: August 29, 1778: Rhode Island: British victory Grey's raid: September 5–17, 1778: Massachusetts: British victory ...
The old French Illinois Country is center left. Illinois County, Virginia, was a political and geographic region, part of the British Province of Quebec, claimed during the American Revolutionary War on July 4, 1778, by George Rogers Clark of the Virginia Militia as a result of the Illinois Campaign.
Joseph Lawrence Bowman (c. 1752 – 15 August 1779) was an American frontiersmen and military officer who fought during the American Revolutionary War.He was second-in-command during Colonel George Rogers Clark's 1778 military campaign to capture the Illinois Country, in which Clark and his men seized the key British-controlled towns of Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Vincennes.
Illinois campaign; Invasion of Dominica (1778) L. Lao–Siamese War (1778–1779) Affair at Little Egg Harbor; Battle off Liverpool, Nova Scotia (1778) M. Mount Hope ...
John Todd (March 27, 1750 – August 19, 1782) was an American military officer and politician who fought during the Revolutionary War and became the first administrator of the Illinois County of the U.S. state of Virginia before that state ceded the territory to the federal government.