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dynamic duo Lewis and Clark) and was trained as a surveyor. He arrived in Kentucky in 1772 at age 20, liked what he saw, and encouraged friends and family to follow. He also acquired another useful skill: Indian fighting. No, the indigenous people in the territory didn’t much appreciate the newcomers (you might be upset too if some city folks took up residence on your back forty). The British were happy to take advantage of that displeasure for their own purposes, using their Indian ‘allies’ to harass the settlements.
Thus it was that a mere month before “the course of human events” took an historic turn when the mother of all ‘signing statements’ was inked in Philadelphia, that Clark called a meeting of leaders in Kentucky. The subjects: defense from the Indian attacks and a petition to Virginia to be included as a county in that soon to be state. As both the Revolution back east and the Indian attacks out west heated up during the ‘bloody 77s’, Clark learned that the “hair buyer”, British Lt. Gov. Henry Hamilton, was paying the Indians for prisoners and scalps in Detroit and supplying them from posts in the Illinois country. Not a good sign.
Clark received a commission from Virginia as a Lt. Colonel and authorization to form and lead seven companies of militia to defend what was now Kentucky County and secret orders to attack the British outpost of Kaskaskia on the Mississippi River near St. Louis. With
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