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Histories &
Mysteries
Judy and John Tole
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the other George busy fending off the British in New England and the mid-Atlantic, George R. had difficulty raising all his companies. Nonetheless, he left the vicinity of present day Pittsburgh on May 12, 1778 with about 175 men on a march to the Mississippi. On July 4 Clark celebrated the second birthday of the US by capturing Kaskaskia. It didn’t hurt that French sympathy was strong in this area that had been ceded to Britain after the French and Indian War, but hey, you take help where you can get it, especially on the frontier. Surprise for Hamilton
Hamilton, the British general with the ‘hair’ fetish, decided what Clark was up to simply would not do. The Brit gathered his forces in the Detroit area and floated down Lake Eire, the Maumee and Wabash rivers to Fort Sackville at Vincennes in what is now western Indiana. The journey required two months. (He might have gotten there faster by driving from the Motor City, however cars were not invented yet). On Dec 17, he overwhelmed the defenders that had been sent there by Clark and settled in for
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