George Rogers Clark 1779

Lieutenant Colonel George Rogers Clark and his

frontiersmen captured Fort Sackville and British Lt. Governor Henry Hamilton on February 25, 1779. The heroic march of Clark's men from Kaskaskia on the Mississippi River in mid-winter and the subsequent victory over the British remains one of the great feats of the American Revolution.

Clark was hailed as the "Conqueror of the West", and much of the midwest was ceded by Great Britain to the new United States in the Treaty of Paris

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   George Rogers Clark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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   George Rogers Clark (November 19, 1752 – February 13, 1818) was a soldier from Virginia and the highest ranking American military officer on the ...
   

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   George Rogers Clark National Historical Park - National Park Service

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   Official National Park Service site. Information on the park and Vincennes, Indiana.
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   Clark gained the friendship of Father Pierre Gibault, the priest at Kaskaskia, and through his influence the French at Vincennes on the Wabash were induced ...
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   IHB: George Rogers Clark Biography - State of Indiana

   
   

   

   
   

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   George Rogers Clark was the second son of John and Ann Rogers Clark. Both families were Virginia landholders, and after their marriage they moved to a 400 ...
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   About George Rogers Clark (1752-1818). At 26, George Rogers Clark was a confident frontiersman with a vision that would nearly double the size of his country ...
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   Clark, George Rogers, 1752–1818, American Revolutionary general, conqueror of the Old Northwest, b. near Charlottesville, Va.; brother of.
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   American Revolution: Brigadier General George Rogers Clark

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   Brigadier General George Rogers Clark was an American leader during the American Revolution. Campaigning in the Old Northwest, Clark won key victories ...
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   A Biography of George Rogers Clark - Silver Creek High School

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   The younger George. George Rogers Clark was born the second son of John and Ann Rogers Clark in 1752. He lived on a 400 acre farm until he was about 5, ...

Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable 1788

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (1745?-1818) was the first non Native American Chicagoan settler and city's first black settler. He is believed to have been born in Haiti sometime before 1750. His biography is developed from records British or American governments.

Point du Sable was a fur trader with an official license from the British government. Du Sable managed a trading post in Indiana.

In 1788 du Sable owned a farm in Chicago and lived there with his wife Catherine and their children.

Suzanne Point du Sable, Jean Baptiste and Catherine's daughter, was married in 1790 and bore a daughter, Eulalie, in 1796. Her brother, Jean Baptiste Jr., worked as a trader on the Missouri River. He died in 1814.

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There is a high school in south Chicago named after du Sable. It was always fun to hear their cheerleaders sing:

"Wobble Wobble Wobble, Were from DuSable.

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   DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis tells the history of Chicago's African-American community as never before — through the voices of its leading ...
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   Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable was born in San Marc, Haiti, in 1745. Not very much is known about Du Sable's early life. It is known, however, that Du Sable's ...
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   Jun 29, 2011 – 1818 Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable was an intrepid pioneer and settler in the areas now known as Peoria and Chicago, Illinois. His foresight ...
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   Jean du Sable: Jean-Baptiste-Point Explorer. Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable (1750?-1818) was a Haitian-French pioneer and trader; he founded the settlement ...
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Marquette and Joliet

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   LOUIS JOLLIET(sometimes spelled Joliet) (1645-1700). Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet searched together and found the waters of the Mississippi River.
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   Jul 29, 2009 – In 1673, Father Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and LouisJoliet, a fur trader, undertook an expedition to explore the unsettled territory ...
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   Two young men, Louis Joliet, a fur trader, and Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, were chosen to lead an expedition from a mission at the northeast corner ...
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   In 1672, Marquette and Joliet were ordered by Governor Frontenac of New France, which is today known as Canada, to search for a path to the Pacific Oc.
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    Sep 29, 2000 – Welcome to our Jacques Marquette & Louis Joliet Webpage! Personal Background: Jacques Marquette was born on June 10, 1637 in Laon, ...

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    French officials commissioned Louis Joliet and Father Marquette to explore the region and to claim that vast stretch of land for the French Crown. Count de ...