George Rogers Clark
Military Person
1752 – 1818
Who was George Rogers Clark?
George Rogers Clark was a soldier from Virginia and the highest ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the Kentucky militia throughout much of the war. Clark is best known for his celebrated captures of Kaskaskia and Vincennes during the Illinois Campaign, which greatly weakened British influence in the Northwest Territory. Because the British ceded the entire Northwest Territory to the United States in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, Clark has often been hailed as the "Conqueror of the Old Northwest."
Clark's military achievements all came before his 30th birthday. Afterwards he led militia in the opening engagements of the Northwest Indian War, but was accused of being drunk on duty. Despite his demand for a formal investigation into the accusations, he was disgraced and forced to resign. He left Kentucky to live on the Indiana frontier. Never fully reimbursed by Virginia for his wartime expenditures, Clark spent the final decades of his life evading creditors, and living in increasing poverty and obscurity.
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- Born
- Nov 19, 1752
Albemarle County - Siblings
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Indiana
- Louisville
- Died
- Feb 13, 1818
Louisville - Resting place
- Cave Hill Cemetery and Arboretum
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on July 23, 2013
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