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George Rogers Clark
Born: 1752 in Charlotteville, Virginia
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Lieutenant Colonel George Rogers Clark captured Kaskaskia and other parts of southern Illinois during his Vincennes campaign during the revolutionary war. Biography: Foward by Rand Burnette
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| The conquest of the Illinois ISBN: 9781542741323 OCLC: 1050361594 Written only a decade after George Rogers Clark's conquest of Illinois, this firsthand account shows the region as it existed in the 1770s, explains how British occupation affected Kentucky settlers, and exhibits Clark's enormous diplomatic skills in convincing the French settlers and Indians along the rivers of the Illinois that they were better off under the jurisdiction of the Americans rather than the British. In his foreword to the book, Rand Burnette refers to Clark as a psychologist and an expert in human relations. |