biography
| name: |
Clark, George Rogers
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| lived:
| (1752–1818)
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| biography:
| Surveyor and soldier, born near Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. A surveyor by profession, he explored the Ohio R region. At the outset of the Revolution, he was commander of the Kentucky militia. Taking the offensive with a small force, he conducted an epic campaign involving intensive overland marches and the capture of several British outposts, and ending in the ‘Night of the Long Knives’ at Fort Sackville, Vincennes, IN (1779). He continued to fight the British and their Indian allies, and by the end of the Revolution had secured the old Northwest (Michigan, Indiana, Illinois) for the new United States - a military reality the politicians recognized in the Treaty of Paris (1783). After 1803 he was engaged mainly in supervising land allotments in the new territory. |
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