Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818
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Clark, George Rogers
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Clark, George Rogers (Redstone, Pa.)
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Gen. George Rogers Clark
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George Rogers Clark
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Clark, George Rogers (Kentucky)
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Col. George Rogers Clark.
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Clark, George R.,
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Clark, George Rogers, active 1775-1784, Colonel in the American Army
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Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1826.
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Clark, Geo. R. (George Rogers), 1752-1818
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Clark, Geo. R. 1752-1818
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Clark, Geo. R. 1752-1818 (George Rogers),
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Clark, Col. 1752-1818 (George Rogers),
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Clark, George Rogers, fl. 1775-1784
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Clark, Col. (George Rogers), 1752-1818
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Surveyor; noted Indian fighter in the American midwest in the latter half of the 18th century.
American Revolutionary Colonel in the Old Northwest. Clark first came to Detroit from Cleveland in 1817, and was followed by his parents in a commercial fisherman and deputy collector of customs in China, Mich. (from M.P.C., I, 501-507: Clark's "Recollections".) (blue index cards)
Surveyor; noted Indian fighter in the American midwest during the latter half of the 18th century.
Continental Army officer.
Surveyor; noted Indian fighter in the American midwest during the latter part of the 18th century.
Epithet: Colonel in the American Army
Revolutionary War soldier and pioneer.
George Rogers Clark was born 19 November 1752 in Albemarle County, Virginia, to John Clark (1725-1799) and Ann Rogers Clark (1728-1798). Clark learned surveying from his grandfather in Caroline County, Virginia. He explored down the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers in what is now Kentucky and West Virginia and surveyed farms for settlers arriving in that territory. Clark served as a captain in the Virginia militia during Lord Dunmore's War in 1774, and the next year returned to Kentucky to survey lands for the Ohio Company. When the Revolution began, Clark encouraged Virginia to protect Kentucky from the British and indians. He captured Kaskaskia, Illinois from the British 4 July 1778 and won the allegience of French settlers in Vincennes, Indiana. When the British took Vincennes in October 1778, Clark recaptured it 25 February 1779. He was responsible for the defense of the Northwest Territory during the rest of the American Revolution. After Kentucky troops were defeated at Blue Licks, Kentucky, by the Shawnee 19 August 1782, Clark retaliated with an attack on Chillicothe, Ohio, defeating the Shawnee 4 November 1782. After the American Revolution ended, Clark served on the Board of Commissioners which allotted the lands in Kentucky and the Northwest Territory granted by Virginia to its soldiers. Clark lived the last few years of his life with his sister and her husband outside Louisville, Kentucky, where he died 13 February 1818.
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Clark's Expedition to the Illinois, 1778-1779
Indians of North America
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Shawnee Indians
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United States
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Detroit (Mich.)
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Vincennes (Ind.)
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America, North America
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Kentucky--Jefferson County
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Fort McIntosh (Penn.)
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Fort Sackville, North America
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