On the morning of this day in 1779, Lt. Col. George Rogers Clark, the elder brother of explorer William Clark, accepted the unconditional surrender of Fort Sackville at Vincennes, Indiana, by British ...
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The small Battle of Fort Sackville is mostly lost in the broader lore of the American Revolution, but the 1779 skirmish on the banks of the Wabash River helped set the stage for something much larger: ...
How the “Conqueror of the Old Northwest” bluffed and terrified the British into surrendering Fort SackvilleStory by John Ghost • 44m 1 / 13 ©Wikimedia Commons/Internet Archive Book Images ...
Christened Giuseppe Maria Francesco Vigo at birth, the native of Mondovi, Sardinia, of Italian descent who joined the Spanish army but became an American hero during the Revolution shortened his name ...
THE new man upstairs at Sackville and Edward streets gained cheering waves when he raised the hopes of some 13,000 people keen to get a gun. At least that number of wannabe gun owners breathed relief ...