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In October 1781 tradition tells us that the band played the tune to this old rhyme as the British army under Lord Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown. This little capitulation was, to put it mildly, an earthflipping event and a terrific career move for George W. as well; you know, father of the country, picture on the greenback dollar and the quarter, tallest monument in D.C. and all. True, he had some luck and a bit of help at the end from the French army and fleet. But in all fairness, despite the pledges of lives, fortunes, and sacred honor on the part of lots of folks, it was George’s tenacity as much as anything, that kept the pregnant thought of independence going long enough to allow the birth the US of A. Yep, he deserves a lot of credit.
But not all the action in the American Revolution took place in the ‘colonies’. There was a great big world out there west of the Blue Ridge and the Alleghenies where the British had forbidden settlement in the 1760s following the French and Indian War. Tbday the region consists of Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin; in the 1700s it was the Northwest Territory. Despite the British prohibition, adventurers from the east, including a mister George Rogers Clark, were settling in this region.
Another George
Clark was bom near Charlottesville, the older brother of William Clark (of the
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