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George Rogers Clark And The Winning Of The Old Northwest

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Author : Robert C. Alberts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975

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George Rogers Clark And The Winning Of The Old Northwest

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Author : Robert Carman Alberts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975

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In June 1778, Lt. Col. George Rogers Clark, a young Revolutionary soldier-frontiersman, was encamped with nearly 200 men near present-day Louisville. He was in possession of secret orders to carry out a daring & hazardous campaign deep in enemy territory, a campaign that would develop into one of the great epics of American history. This book recounts the events of that campaign to capture Vincennes & claim the territory northwest of the Ohio River from the British. The chronological account, concluding with an epilogue, is accompanied by maps illustrating the progress of the campaign.

How George Rogers Clark Won The Northwest

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Author : Reuben Gold Thwaites
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968

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George Rogers Clark

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Author : William Nester
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2012-11-20

George Rogers Clark written by William Nester and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

George Rogers Clark (1752–1818) led four victorious campaigns against the Indians and British in the Ohio Valley during the American Revolution, but his most astonishing coup was recapturing Fort Sackville in 1779, when he was only twenty-six. For eighteen days, in the dead of winter, Clark and his troops marched through bone-chilling nights to reach the fort. With a deft mix of guile and violence, Clark led his men to triumph, without losing a single soldier. Although historians have ranked him among the greatest rebel commanders, Clark’s name is all but forgotten today. William R. Nester resurrects the story of Clark’s triumphs and his downfall in this, the first full biography of the man in more than fifty years. Nester attributes Clark’s successes to his drive and daring, good luck, charisma, and intellect. Born of a distinguished Virginia family, Clark wielded an acute understanding of human nature, both as a commander and as a diplomat. His interest in the natural world was an inspiration to lifelong friend Thomas Jefferson, who asked him in 1784 to lead a cross-country expedition to the Pacific and back. Clark turned Jefferson down. Two decades later, his youngest brother, William, would become the Clark celebrated as a member of the Corps of Discovery. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, though, George Rogers Clark may not have been fit to command any expedition. After the revolution, he raged against the government and pledged fealty to other nations, leading to his arrest under the Sedition Act. The inner demons that fueled Clark’s anger also drove him to excessive drinking. He died at the age of sixty-five, bitter, crippled, and alcoholic. He was, Nester shows, a self-destructive hero: a volatile, multidimensional man whose glorying in war ultimately engaged him in conflicts far removed from the battlefield and against himself.

George Rogers Clark

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Author : Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-09-12

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*Includes pictures *Includes Clark's quotes about his life and career *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia." - George Rogers Clark The last days of the colonial era in America seemed to spawn a number of Renaissance men, unique individuals who were as comfortable in a log cabin as a ballroom and could write as well as they could hunt. George Rogers Clark was one of these men, and in many ways he was a paler, less-accomplished version of his illustrious neighbor, George Washington. Like the Continental Army's leader, George Rogers Clark was an accomplished surveyor who helped map out their Virginia homeland, a good soldier, and an officer in the Virginia militia before and during the Revolutionary War. While Washington led the army, he tasked Clark with leading the American troops along the frontier border in that portion of Virginia that would one day become Kentucky. While he did not necessarily share Washington's success and military genius, Clark played a major part in winning the war, including capturing the important town of Kaskaskia, Illinois, then in the hands of the British, on July 4, 1778. The following year, he took Vincennes, Indiana, in a similarly successful maneuver. These two victories weakened the British presence in the Northwest Territory and allowed the patriots to focus its attention on battles further east. After the war ended and the British gave the Northwest Territory to the United States as part of the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the newly formed nation proclaimed Clark "Conqueror of the Old Northwest," a noble and serious title for a man not yet 30 years old. With the rest of his life still ahead of him, Clark had to find something to do to earn a living, and perhaps just as importantly, figure out a way to regain the sense of fulfillment he enjoyed fighting during the war. To this end, he took up command of yet another militia unit, this one engaged in fighting the Native Americans on the American frontier. Sadly, before the Northwest Indian War came to an end, Clark's career did; like so many other military men, he succumbed to the bottle and developed a problem with alcohol. Now just one more man among a large number of former heroes, Clark abandoned his old Kentucky home for a life on the frontier, returning to the site of his wartime conquests, Indiana. Left nearly penniless after sacrificing most of his income in the cause of American independence, he joined the significant ranks of Founding Fathers who were better known to their creditors than they were to their friends. In an attempt to keep food on his table and a roof over his head, Clark became involved during the last half of his life in some shady dealings, trying on more than one occasion to sell his military services to the French for use in their war against Spain. These attempts ultimately failed, as did his health, and he spent that last years of his life as an invalid, dependent on his family for care and sustenance. George Rogers Clark: The Life and Legacy of the Revolutionary War's Conqueror of the Old Northwest chronicles the adventurous life of one of Revolutionary America's most famous figures. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about George Rogers Clark like never before.

Background To Glory

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Author : John Bakeless
language : en
Publisher: Bison Books
Release Date : 1992

Background To Glory written by John Bakeless and has been published by Bison Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

George Rogers Clark came out of Virginia to lead a frontier militia during the Revolutionary War. Fighting against the British and the Indians in the Illinois country, he scored impressive victories at Kaskaskia and Vincennes. His eventful life is brought to the fore in Background to Glory by John Bakeless, the author of Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness, also a Bison Book.

How George Rogers Clark Won The Northwest

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Author : Reuben Gold Thwaites
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-10-27

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George Rogers Clark And The Winning Of The Old Northwest

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Author : Robert C. Alberts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989-06-01

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George Rogers Clark And The Winning Of The Old Northwest

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Author : U. S. Department U.S. Department of the Interior
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-03-20

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It was June 1778, early in the fourth year of the American Revolution. Lt. Col. George Rogers Clark, a young soldier-frontiersman, was encamped with nearly 200 men on Corn Island at the Falls of the Ohio (across from the site of present-day Louisville). In his dispatch case he carried two sets of orders dated January 2, 1778, and signed by Patrick Henry, Governor of Virginia. His "public orders," designed to keep the British unaware of his true mission, instructed him to raise seven companies of 50 men each, with the pay and allowances of Virginia militia, for the defense of the County of Kentucky. His secret orders, known only to a few of Governor Henry's principal advisers in Williamsburg and to a few of Clark's officers, called for him to carry out a daring and hazardous campaign deep in enemy territory, a campaign that would develop into one of the great epics of American history. Clark had arrived at the Falls of the Ohio on June 1, with 150 frontiersmen, many of them recruited with difficulty around Fort Pitt (Pittsburgh) in Pennsylvania. He had expected four additional companies to be waiting for him at the Falls, but to his "mortification" he found only part of one company from Tennessee and a small force from Kentucky. Each village on the frontier, each valley, each region, was intent on keeping its men at home for its own defense: some let it be known that anyone who left to join Clark would be pursued, apprehended, and confined. The loss of these reinforcements created, as Clark himself admitted, a "desperate" situation, for it meant that he would have to confront a vastly superior enemy with a ludicrously small force. Nevertheless, he was determined to go on.

George Rogers Clark And The Winning Of The Old Northwest Classic Reprint

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Author : Robert C. Alberts
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2019-01-23

George Rogers Clark And The Winning Of The Old Northwest Classic Reprint written by Robert C. Alberts and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-23 with History categories.

Excerpt from George Rogers Clark and the Winning of the Old Northwest One day in June he interrupted his training exercises on Corn lsland, assembled his men, and read his secret orders aloud. He' proposed, he said, to take them into the Illinois country. There they would seize three settlements: Vincennes on the Wabash River, Kaskaskia on the Mississippi, 130 river miles above the mouth of the Ohio, and Cahokia, up the Mississippi near the mouth of the Missouri. He then hoped to obtain rein forcements, march north, and seize Fort Detroit on the neck of land between Lake Erie and Lake Huron. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.