1. By: Matthew Nunn

2.  Born November 19, 1752 in Albemarle County Virginia.  Education  Captain in Dunsmore’s War.

3.  Move to Kentucky.  Made a delegate to make Kentucky a county to Virginia.  Get gunpowder for Kentucky.

4.  Gets approval from Virginia government.  Raised the Illinois Regiment.  Camp at Falls of the Ohio.  Capture Kaskaskia.  Peaceful submission of Cahokia and Vincennes.

5.  Initiation of contact with Native Americans.  Treaties at Cahokia and Vincennes.  Peace with all of the tribes in the region.

6.  Lieutenant Governor Hamilton retake Vincennes.  Clark’s march to the Wabash.  Crossing the Wabash River.  March to Vincennes.

7.  Battle for Fort Sackville.  Hamilton surrenders.  Aftermath.

8.  1780 Campaigns.  Clark made a Brigadier General.  Lochry’s Defeat.  End of the American Revolution.  Battle of Blue Licks and Piqua

9.  1786 Campaign.  Clark debt takes toll.  Clark made a Major General in the French Army.  Loss of health.  Clark died on February 13, 1818 in Locust Grove, Kentucky.

10.  Northwest Territory.  State made from the Northwest Territory.  http://www.nps.gov/ gero/index.htm http://www.nps.gov/ gero/index.htm  Counties, towns, and schools named after Clark.

11.  Bakeless, John E. Background to Glory: The Life of George Rogers Clark. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1957.  Clark, George Rogers. Col. George Rogers Clark's Sketch of His Campaign in the Illinois... And an Appendix Containing the Public and Private Instructions to Col. Clark, and Major Bowman's Journal of the Taking of Post St. Vincents. 1869. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1971.  Clark, George Rogers. The Capture of Old Vincennes: The Original Narratives of George Rogers Clark and of His Opponent Gov. Henry Hamilton. Milo M. Quaife, ed. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1927.  James, James Alton. The Life of George Rogers Clark. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1928.