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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clark , or Clarke , George Rogers -1818 (search)
Clark, or Clarke, George Rogers -1818
Military officer; born near Monticello, Albemarle co., Va., Nov. 19, 1752; was a land surveyor, and commanded a company in Dunmore's war against the Indians in 1774.
He went to Kentucky in 1775, and took command of the armed settlers there.
It was ascertained in the spring of 1778 that the English governor of Detroit (Hamilton) was inciting the Western Indians to make war on the American frontiers.
Under the authority of the State of Virginia, and with some aid from it in money and supplies, Clark enlisted 200 men for three months, with whom he embarked at Pittsburg, and descended to the site of Louisville, where thirteen families, following in his train, located on an island in the Ohio (June, 1778). There Clark was joined by some Kentuckians, and, descending the river some distance farther, hid his boats and marched to attack Kaskaskia (now in Illinois), one of the old French settlements near the Mississippi.
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jefferson , Thomas 1743 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mazzei , Philip 1730 -1816 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Randolph , Thomas Jefferson 1792 -1875 (search)
Randolph, Thomas Jefferson 1792-1875
Author; born at Monticello, Va., Sept. 12, 1792; grandson of Thomas Jefferson.
As literary executor of Jefferson he published The life and correspondence of Thomas Jefferson (4 volumes). He also wrote Sixty years Reminiscenees of the currency of the United States. He died at Edgehill, Va., Oct. 8, 1875.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)