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In Context. In the early stages of the American Revolution, British officials built Fort Vincennes, later named Sackville, along the Wabash River, at the modern border of Illinois and Indiana. British Lieutenant Governor Edward Abbott began construction in 1777. He was succeeded by Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton, who arrived in late 1778 ...
The Siege of Fort Vincennes (aks the Siege of Fort Sackville or the Battle of Vincennes) was a frontier battle fought in present-day Vincennes, Indiana. It was won by an American militia over a British garrison. Roughly half of George Rogers Clark's militia were Canadien volunteers sympathetic to the American cause.
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- Scholars Reference Three Major Journals
- Brief History of Region
- British Control of Northwest Territories Leads to Conflict with Native Americans
- War Erupts in The East and Kentucky Seeks Help
- George Rogers Clark Heads Virginia Militia Sent to Kentucky
- Detroit’s Lieutenant Governor General Henry Hamilton
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- Clark Captures Kaskaskia and Cahokia
- Father Pierre Gibault The Patriot Priest
Historians and scholars have referenced three journals kept by three principal participants during the Illinois campaigns of 1778-79 to describe events: 1. Colonel George Rogers Clark – commander of the American force 2. Captain Joseph Bowman – second to Clark 3. Lt. Governor Henry Hamilton – commanding British forces at Vincennes. With minor excep...
The Peoria Confederation and Illiniwek Native Americans occupied the massive region drained by the Mississippi River and south along the river. They may or may not have been descendants of the people who created the large mound societies in the Great Planes dating back thousands of years. The Illiniwek lived in present day Illinois, named for them ...
Prior to the Seven Years War, 1756-63, France had declared the territories west of the Appalachian Mountains. England claimed the Atlantic coastal region, and Spain was in control of the southwest, Florida, and southern Georgia. Throughout the early 1700’s, the European forces collided in one clash of arms after another. Fort de Chartres was built ...
By 1775, when political relations between colonial ‘rebels’ and England worsened and erupted in open warfare, there were only pockets of violence in the west. However, that was to change. Neither the British nor the new American government had the men or means to send troops to guard the western wilderness and settlements. For security, the British...
George Rogers Clark, (1752-1818), was born near Charlottesville, Virginia. In 1771, at age 19, he traveled to Kentucky to survey the territory as a possible county of Virginia. In 1774, he was commissioned a captain of a company of militia from Kentucky and was briefly embroiled in Lord Dunmore’s War against the Shawnee Native Americans. In June of...
Scotsman Henry Hamilton (1734 – September 29, 1796), was a man of many talents; a gifted administrator, amateur artist, and commissioned a major in the British army. He fought in the Seven Years war and was wounded alongside the renowned General James Wolfein Canada. He gave up his commission to be appointed one of the five Lieutenant Governor Gene...
In December, 1777, while Washington’s army moved into winter headquarters at Valley Forge, Clark presented his plan for an expedition to the Illinois country to Virginia’s governor Patrick Henry. He proposed he raise a body of militia rangers and riflemen from Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania. They would join additional militia from Kentucky ...
When England was granted all French claims east of the Mississippi River after the Seven Year’s War, very little in the way of money, supplies, and troops filtered into the vast wilderness to maintain British holdings. Only small detachments of troops were assigned to the half dozen or so outposts and stockades scattered through the Wabash/Illinois...
Five months after Lt. Governor Abbott departed Vincennes, Clark’s force of around 200 Virginia Militia entered Kaskaskia on the evening of July 4th, 1778. Not a shot was fired as the parish church bell announced the event. The bell has since been called the Western Liberty Bell and is on display in present day Kaskaskia, Illinois. The next day, Cap...
Sometimes called the ‘Patriot Priest’ of the West, it is believed that Father Gibault had been a fur trader before he was educated at the Seminaire of Quebec. Ordained as priest at age 31 on March 19, 1768, he was afterwards appointed by Bishop Briand Vicar General of the Archbishop of Quebec for the Illinois country. He soon after departed for Kas...
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- 2020
5 wounded. 79 captured [3] 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.
- 23–25 February 1779
- Vincennes, Indiana
- American victory
George Rogers Clark: Narrative of the March to Vincennes — Capture of Vincennes: Illinois Country, February 1779. Alexander Hamilton to John Jay, March 14, 1779 — “To give them their freedom with their muskets”: March 1779. George Washington to Henry Laurens, March 20, 1779 — Arming Slaves “a moot point”: March 1779
Oct 9, 2017 · Vincennes, as was Company B, known as the "Old Post Guards." The first series of letters covered the period from July 17 to October 16, 1861; the second, from December 9, 1861, to July 8, 1862; the third, from July 8, 1862, to May 6, 1863; the fourth, from October 24, 1863, to July 1, 1864. "Prock" was wounded at Chancellorsville in 1863, and again
