Download or read book The Life of George Rogers Clark 1752 1818 written by Kenneth C. Carstens and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2004-10-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography presents a refreshingly new and comprehensive interpretation of the life of George Rogers Clark.
Download or read book George Rogers Clark written by Temple Bodley and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of George Rogers Clark (1752-1818), American Revolution soldier and frontiersman.
Download or read book George Rogers Clark 1752 1818 written by Hambleton Tapp and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book George Rogers Clark written by Jeannette Covert Nolan and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book COL GEORGE ROGERS CLARKS SKETC written by George Rogers 1752-1818 Clark and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 114 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book GEORGE ROGERS CLARK THE KASK written by George Rogers 1752-1818 Clark and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 24 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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.
Download or read book George Rogers Clark and His Men written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of collection housed at the Virginia State Library known as the Illinois Papers or Clark Papers.
Download or read book Guide to the Draper Manuscripts written by Josephine L. Harper and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-nineteenth century the Wisconsin Historical Society's first director, Lyman C. Draper, gathered outstanding materials such as the Daniel Boone papers, which include Draper's interviews with Boone's son, and the papers of Revolutionary War hero George Rogers Clark. These two collections alone are of vast significance to frontier history before 1830, but the full collection comprises nearly five hundred volumes of records, including military and government records, interviews, Draper's own research notes, and rare personal letters. For scholars, genealogists, and local historians, the Draper papers offer a wealth of information on the social, economic, and cultural conditions experienced by our frontier forebears. The 180-page index lists thousands of names and is an indispensable guide for all who wish to use the collection, which is available in libraries across the country on microfilm.
Download or read book Bicentennial Anniversary of the Birth of George Rogers Clark 1752 1952 written by George Rogers Clark Memorial Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book George Rogers Clark Papers 1771 written by George Rogers Clark and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Rogers Clark and the Winning of the Old Northwest written by Robert C. Alberts and published by . This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1778, Lt. Col. George Rogers Clark, a young Revolutionary soldier-frontiersman, was encamped with nearly 200 men near present-day Louisville. He was in possession of secret orders to carry out a daring & hazardous campaign deep in enemy territory, a campaign that would develop into one of the great epics of American history. This book recounts the events of that campaign to capture Vincennes & claim the territory northwest of the Ohio River from the British. The chronological account, concluding with an epilogue, is accompanied by maps illustrating the progress of the campaign.
Download or read book George Rogers Clark Papers 1771 1781 written by George Rogers Clark and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Rogers Clark Papers 1781 1784 written by George Rogers Clark and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters of Thomas Jefferson To George Rogers Clark written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Avalon Project of the Yale University Law School in New Haven, Connecticut presents a December 4, 1783 letter from future U.S. President Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) to American Revolutionary soldier and frontier leader George Rogers Clark (1752-1818). The letter refers to some issues that will later become part of the Ordinance of 1787.
