Vincennes

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Features, Frontier, Postwar Conflict (>1783), Reviews, The War Years (1775-1783) June 3, 2020 May 23, 2020

George Rogers Clark and William Croghan

by Gabriel Neville

George Rogers Clark and William Croghan: A Story of the Revolution, Settlement, and Early Life at Locust Grove by Gwynne Tuell Potts (Lexington: University Press…

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Critical Thinking, The War Years (1775-1783) March 13, 2019 March 15, 2019

Contributor Question: Best Strategic Defeat?

by Editors

This month, we asked our contributors to consider the many changes of fortune that occurred over the tumultuous four decades that transformed thirteen British…

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People February 17, 2015 August 28, 2016

George Rogers Clark at Vincennes: “You May Expect No Mercy”

by Joshua Shepherd

From the outset, it was a military operation whose strategic goals were combined with a fierce quest for vengeance. On January 3, 1778, Lieutenant…

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