Excerpt from George Rogers Clark and the Winning of the Old Northwest One day in June he interrupted his training exercises on Corn lsland, assembled his men, and read his secret orders aloud. He' proposed, he said, to take them into the Illinois country. There they would seize three settlements: Vincennes on the Wabash River, Kaskaskia on the Mississippi, 130 river miles above the mouth of the Ohio, and Cahokia, up the Mississippi near the mouth of the Missouri. He then hoped to obtain rein forcements, march north, and ...
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Excerpt from George Rogers Clark and the Winning of the Old Northwest One day in June he interrupted his training exercises on Corn lsland, assembled his men, and read his secret orders aloud. He' proposed, he said, to take them into the Illinois country. There they would seize three settlements: Vincennes on the Wabash River, Kaskaskia on the Mississippi, 130 river miles above the mouth of the Ohio, and Cahokia, up the Mississippi near the mouth of the Missouri. He then hoped to obtain rein forcements, march north, and seize Fort Detroit on the neck of land between Lake Erie and Lake Huron. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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