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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 8: (search)
e posts of Detroit and Niagara, had Chap. VIII.} 1778. withdrawn the small British garrison from Kaskaskia, and the government was left in the hands of Rocheblave, a Frenchman, who had neither troops nor money. I wish, he wrote in February, 1778, the nation might come to know one of its best possessions, and consent to give it some encouragement; and he entreated Germain that a lieutenant-governor might be sent with a company of soldiers to reside in Illinois. Rocheblave to Germain, 28 Feb., 1778. On the passage down the Ohio, Clark was overtaken by news of the alliance with France. Having learned from a band of hunters the defenceless condition of Kaskaskia, he and his party, landing three leagues below the mouth of the Tennessee, struck across the country on foot, approached Kaskaskia on the fourth of July, in the darkness of evening surprised the town, and without bloodshed seized Rocheblave, the commandant. The inhabitants gladly bound themselves to fealty to the United