George Rogers Clark And The War In The West

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George Rogers Clark and the War in the West

Author : Lowell H. Harrison
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813146186
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book George Rogers Clark and the War in the West written by Lowell H. Harrison and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Much has been written about the famous conflicts and battlegrounds of the East during the American Revolution. Perhaps less familiar, but equally important and exciting, was the war on the western frontier, where Ohio Valley settlers fought for the land they had claimed -- and for their very lives. George Rogers Clark stepped forward to organize the local militias into a united front that would defend the western frontier from Indian attacks. Clark was one of the few people who saw the importance of the West in the war effort as a whole, and he persuaded Virginia's government to lend support to his efforts. As a result Clark was able to cross the Ohio, saving that part of the frontier from further raids. Lowell Harrison captures the excitement of this vital part of American history while giving a complete view of George Rogers Clark's significant achievements. Lowell H. Harrison, is a professor emeritus of history at Western Kentucky University and is the author or co-author of numerous books, including Lincoln of Kentucky, A New History of Kentucky, and Kentucky's Governors."

George Rogers Clark

Author : Susan Lee
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
ISBN 13 : 9780516046761
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (467 download)

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Download or read book George Rogers Clark written by Susan Lee and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1975 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the campaigns of Major George Rogers Clark whose small army of Virginians captured several frontier forts for the colonists during the Revolution.

George Rogers Clark

Author : William Nester
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806188138
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book George Rogers Clark written by William Nester and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Rogers Clark (1752–1818) led four victorious campaigns against the Indians and British in the Ohio Valley during the American Revolution, but his most astonishing coup was recapturing Fort Sackville in 1779, when he was only twenty-six. For eighteen days, in the dead of winter, Clark and his troops marched through bone-chilling nights to reach the fort. With a deft mix of guile and violence, Clark led his men to triumph, without losing a single soldier. Although historians have ranked him among the greatest rebel commanders, Clark’s name is all but forgotten today. William R. Nester resurrects the story of Clark’s triumphs and his downfall in this, the first full biography of the man in more than fifty years. Nester attributes Clark’s successes to his drive and daring, good luck, charisma, and intellect. Born of a distinguished Virginia family, Clark wielded an acute understanding of human nature, both as a commander and as a diplomat. His interest in the natural world was an inspiration to lifelong friend Thomas Jefferson, who asked him in 1784 to lead a cross-country expedition to the Pacific and back. Clark turned Jefferson down. Two decades later, his youngest brother, William, would become the Clark celebrated as a member of the Corps of Discovery. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, though, George Rogers Clark may not have been fit to command any expedition. After the revolution, he raged against the government and pledged fealty to other nations, leading to his arrest under the Sedition Act. The inner demons that fueled Clark’s anger also drove him to excessive drinking. He died at the age of sixty-five, bitter, crippled, and alcoholic. He was, Nester shows, a self-destructive hero: a volatile, multidimensional man whose glorying in war ultimately engaged him in conflicts far removed from the battlefield and against himself.

George Rogers Clark and William Croghan

Author : Gwynne Tuell Potts
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081317869X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book George Rogers Clark and William Croghan written by Gwynne Tuell Potts and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dual biography focuses on the lives of two very different men who fought for and settled the American West and whose vision secured the old Northwest Territory for the new nation. The two represented contrasting American experiences: famed military leader George Rogers Clark was from the Virginia planter class. William Croghan was an Irish immigrant with tight family ties to the British in America. Yet their lives would intersect in ways that would make independence and western settlement possible. The war experiences of Clark and Croghan epitomize the American course of the Revolution. Croghan fought in the Revolutionary War at Trenton and spent the winter of 1777–1778 at Valley Forge with George Washington and LaFayette before being taken prisoner at Charleston. Clark, known as the "Hannibal of the West," was famous for his victorious Illinois campaign against the British and as an Indian fighter. Following the war, Croghan became Clark's deputy surveyor of military lands for the Virginia State Line, enabling him to acquire some 54,000 acres on the edge of the American frontier. Croghan's marriage to Lucy Clark, George Rogers Clark's sister, solidified his position in society. Clark, however, was regularly called by Virginia and the federal government to secure peace in the Ohio River Valley, leading to his financial ruin and emotional decline. Croghan remained at Clark's side throughout it all, even as he prospered in the new world they had fought to create, while Clark languished. These men nevertheless worked and eventually lived together, bound by the familial connections they shared and a political ideology honed by the Revolution.

George Rogers Clark

Author : Walter Havighurst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book George Rogers Clark written by Walter Havighurst and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fairest Portion of the Globe

Author : Frances Hunter
Publisher : Blind Rabbit Press
ISBN 13 : 0977763609
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book The Fairest Portion of the Globe written by Frances Hunter and published by Blind Rabbit Press. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Louisiane--a land of riches beyond imagining. Whoever controls the vast domain along the Mississippi River will decide the fate of the North American continent. When young French diplomat Citizen Genet arrives in America, he's determined to wrest Louisiana away from Spain and win it back for France--even if it means global war. Caught up this astonishing scheme are George Rogers Clark, the washed-up hero of the Revolution and unlikely commander of Genet's renegade force; his beautiful sister Fanny, who risks her own sanity to save her brother's soul; General "Mad Anthony" Wayne, who never imagined he'd find the country's deadliest enemy inside his own army; and two young soldiers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who dream of claiming the Western territory in the name of the United States--only to become the pawns of those who seek to destroy it. From the frontier forts of Ohio to the elegant halls of Philadelphia, the virgin forests of Kentucky to the mansions of Natchez, Frances Hunter has written a page-turning tale of ambition, intrigue, and the birth of a legendary American friendship--in a time when America was fighting to survive.

George Rogers Clark

Author : Russell Roberts
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
ISBN 13 : 1545749906
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book George Rogers Clark written by Russell Roberts and published by Mitchell Lane. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people do not realize that there were two theaters of warfare during the American Revolution. One was in the east, with George Washington and his Continental Army. The other was in the west, with George Rogers Clark and his spirited volunteers trying to hold off the British and their Native American allies.The story of George Rogers Clark is one of courage, bravery, and daring in the face of overwhelming odds. Often finding himself in what appeared to be a hopeless situation, Clark used skill and ingenuity to improvise his way to repeated victories. He was the fabled Long Knife, known far and wide not only for his brutality but also for his honesty and bravery. His victories played a key part in helping America win the War of Independence.

A New History of Kentucky

Author : Lowell H. Harrison
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081313708X
Total Pages : 1119 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book A New History of Kentucky written by Lowell H. Harrison and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1997-03-27 with total page 1119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of the state since the publication of Thomas D. Clark's landmark History of Kentucky over sixty years ago. A New History of Kentucky brings the Commonwealth to life, from Pikeville to the Purchase, from Covington to Corbin, this account reveals Kentucky's many faces and deep traditions. Lowell Harrison, professor emeritus of history at Western Kentucky University, is the author of many books, including George Rogers Clark and the War in the West, The Civil War in Kentucky, Kentucky's Road to Statehood, Lincoln of Kentucky, and Kentucky's Governors.

George Rogers Clark

Author : Katharine E. Wilkie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781882859436
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book George Rogers Clark written by Katharine E. Wilkie and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood of the explorer and soldier who won the Northwest Territory for the United States during the Revolutionary War.

How George Rogers Clark Won the Northwest

Author : Reuben Gold Thwaites
Publisher : Corner House Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book How George Rogers Clark Won the Northwest written by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by Corner House Publications. This book was released on 1978 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon the eve of the Revolutionary war, the vast stretch of country northwest of the river Ohio--later divided into the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin-- was a part of the British Province of Quebec. As a result of Wolfe's victory on the Plains of Abraham, Great Britain had acquired it from France by the treaty of 1763. Like the French, the British ministry designed keeping the region as an enormous hunting-ground for the benefit of the Indians and the fur-traders. In adopting this policy, the government were influenced by three considerations; first, the enormous profits reaped by English merchants from the commerce of the forest; again, the apprehension that should colonial settlement spread beyond the Alleghanies, these merchants could not supply the people as easily as before, and colonial trad4e would be correspondingly hampered; third, the fear that if allowed to intrench themselves behind the mountain wall, American borderers might become bolder and more impudent than ever. Selfish and short-sighted, they endeavored arbitrarily to hem in their colonists to the Atlantic Slope, thus adding a fresh cause for colonial uneasiness, already assuming ominous proportions.

The Life and Times of George Rogers Clark

Author : Russell Roberts
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781584154488
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of George Rogers Clark written by Russell Roberts and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people do not realize that there were two theaters of warfare during the American Revolution. One was in the east, with George Washington and his Continental Army. The other was in the west, with George Rogers Clark and his spirited volunteers trying to hold off the British and their Native American allies.The story of George Rogers Clark is one of courage, bravery, and daring in the face of overwhelming odds. Often finding himself in what appeared to be a hopeless situation, Clark used skill and ingenuity to improvise his way to repeated victories. He was the fabled Long Knife, known far and wide not only for his brutality but also for his honesty and bravery. His victories played a key part in helping America win the War of Independence.

Journal of the American Revolution

Author : Todd Andrlik
Publisher : Journal of the American Revolu
ISBN 13 : 9781594162787
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the American Revolution written by Todd Andrlik and published by Journal of the American Revolu. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth annual compilation of selected articles from the online Journal of the American Revolution.

George Rogers Clark, Pioneer Hero of the Old Northwest

Author : Ross Franklin Lockridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Rogers Clark, Pioneer Hero of the Old Northwest written by Ross Franklin Lockridge and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Man of War

Author : Charlie Schroeder
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142196800
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Man of War written by Charlie Schroeder and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the middle of a heat wave, and Charlie Schroeder is dressed in heavy clothing and struggling to row a replica eighteenth-century bateau down the St. Lawrence River. Why? Months earlier, Schroeder realized he knew almost nothing about history. But he wanted to learn, so the actor spent a year reenacting it. This book is Schroeder's account of the time he spent chasing Celts in Arkansas, raiding a Viet Cong village in Virginia, and flirting with frostbite en route to "Stalingrad" in Colorado. Along the way, he illuminates just how much the past can teach us about the present.--From back cover.

William Clark and the Shaping of the West

Author : Landon Y. Jones
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780809097265
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book William Clark and the Shaping of the West written by Landon Y. Jones and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1803 and 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark co-captained the most famous expedition in American history. But while Lewis ended his life just three years later, Clark, as the highest-ranking federal official in the West, spent three decades overseeing its consequences: Indian removal and the destruction of Native America. In a rare combination of storytelling and scholarship, bestselling author Landon Y. Jones vividly depicts Clark's life and the dark and bloody ground of America's early West, capturing the qualities of character and courage that made Clark an unequaled leader in America's grander enterprise: the shaping of the West.

George Rogers Clark, Washington of the West

Author : Leo McGinley Long
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Rogers Clark, Washington of the West written by Leo McGinley Long and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

George Rogers Clark, Soldier in the West

Author : Walter 1901- Havighurst
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015063907
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book George Rogers Clark, Soldier in the West written by Walter 1901- Havighurst and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.