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Can You Name This
Famous Virginian
An American soldier and frontieisman.
He was -born near Monticello, Va.
At the -beginning: of the Revolution, he was chosen as delegate to rep_recen‘ Kentucky.
In 1778, -as lieutenant colonel, he raised a force of troops and began the conquest of the northvest liv capturing Kaskaskia from the FrencJ’.
His military •successes in the eld northwest during the Revolutionary War gave the U.S. its chief claim to the territory between the Mississippi River and t'-e Alleghany mo- ntain.
In 1780 he accepted a command under Baion Von Steuben to defend Virginia against the British.
Ten yfti s after the close of the war, he accepted a commission as major general to recapture Spanish posses ions on the Mississippi for the French, tint the plan was not carried outr- ' -
He spent hr- lust days in the present state of Indiana on an < -date which was. a gift from the Virginia legislature.
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Last week's famous Virginian 1 as .John Sunith Pieston.
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