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a long winter’s nap. Big mistake!
George Rogers C. decided that if Washington could cross the icy Delaware on Christmas, the least he (Clark) could do was to surprise the ‘hair buyer’ during the latter’s mid-western winter hibernation. It took them most of February, but Clark and his small band of merry men, marched, waded, and floated the 240 miles from Kaskaskia through horrid conditions reaching Vincennes on the 23rd. And, then, like Washington’s attack on TVenton, SURPRISE!
There doesn’t appear to have been any music on February 25, 1779 when Hamilton surrendered Fort Sackville to Clark but there should have been.
A flip of the
old globe
The effect of this largely overlooked event on the future of the US was, as Entertainment Tbnight might say, huge. Clark and his men participated in numerous other military engagements in the region until the end of the Revolution, but the actions at Kaskaskia, and particularly Vincennes, were THE major turning points. The British never regained control of these posts, and the American claims in the old Northwest served as the basis of the cession of these lands to the United States at the Treaty of Paris in 1783. The British withdrew from Detroit, and the Great Lakes became the northern boundary of the United States. Twas, me blokes, an enormous flip of the old globe.
There are many interesting side stories to the Fort Sackville ‘incident’. The sympathetic Trench connection’ was as altogether helpful to Clark as it was to GW at Yorktown. George R. apparently ‘bluffed’ various
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