Colonel George Rogers Clark Headquarters Site - Vincennes, IN, USA
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YoSam.
N 38° 40.835 W 087° 31.989
16S E 453626 N 4281466
Site of headquarters, but dedicated to the Valiant Americans
Waymark Code: WM180X7
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 05/06/2023
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County of memorial: Knox County
Location of memorial: 1st St. & Main St., Vincennes
Plaque erected by: Indiana Daughters of the American Revolution
Date plaque erected: 1954
This plaque is on a plot of empty ground, with several markers from the history of the city of Vincennes. The area is also walls to block off the river in case of flood, and is the place where a ferry once existed, and Abraham Lincoln first enter into the state of Illinois from Indiana.
This site is tucked away, and you have to look for it. It is across the highway, at the bridge, from the huge George Rogers Clark Memorial National Site.
"After receiving secret authorization from Governor Patrick Henry, Clark patched together a force of some 175 men and rendezvoused at the Falls of the Ohio River at the site of modern Louisville. On June 24, 1778, Clark’s troops set out for the Illinois settlements and reached the region entirely undetected. It proved to be an anticlimactic as well as bloodless conquest. By the first week of July the Americans, without opposition, occupied the villages of Kaskaskia and Cahokia, and the regions’ French inhabitants, rather lukewarm subjects of His Britannic Majesty, were largely cooperative. By the end of the month, Clark dispatched Captain Leonard Helm to assume command of the decrepit stockade of Fort Sackville in Vincennes, an isolated outpost situated on the lower reaches of the Wabash River.
"Hamilton reached Vincennes on December 17, and his seizure of Fort Sackville was something of a gentlemanly farce. The decrepit American installation was held by Captain Helm and about 25 rattled men, but Helm remarkably held out for the honors of war. Hamilton behaved rather graciously, permitting the chagrined American captain to haul down his colors. “It now became a point of consideration,” Hamilton later wrote, “whether or not we should prosecute our intended attack of the Rebels at the Illinois.” Preoccupied with repairing the “miserable picketed work” of Fort Sackville, the governor dismissed the bulk of his militia, as well as the Indians, who were to return in the spring. Ultimately, Hamilton decided to sit tight for the winter and dispense with the rebels in Kaskaskia when the weather broke." ~ Journal of the American Revolution