George Rogers Clark
American surveyor, soldier, and militia officer (1752-1818) · United States · Died at 65
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Depiction of George Rogers Clark recapturing Fort Sackville at the Battle of Vincennes on U.S. postage stamp, 1929 issue
Clark's march to Vincennes was the most celebrated event of his career; it has been often depicted, as in this illustration by F. C. Yohn.
Virginia Land Office warrant to Clark for 560 acres for having raised a battalion to fight in the Revolutionary War, January 1780
Original plat of Clark's Grant
Grave site of Clark at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville
Statement from Clark's physician noting the General's health problems, which the doctor ascribed to the severe conditions the General had endured during his wartime service, December 1809
Statue by MacNeil at George Rogers Clark National Historical ParkFamily
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George Rogers Clark was an American military officer and surveyor from Virginia who became the highest-ranking Patriot military officer on the northwestern frontier during the Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the Virginia militia in Kentucky throughout much of the war, and is credited for founding Louisville, Kentucky, mid-war. He is best known for his captures of Kaskaskia, Illinois, in 1778 and Vincennes, Indiana, in 1779 during the Illinois campaign, which greatly weakened British influence in the Northwest Territory and earned Clark the nickname of "Conqueror of the Old Northwest". The British ceded the entire Northwest Territory to the United States in the 1783 Treaty of Paris.
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