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Illustration of George Rogers Clark's march to Vincennes in the American Revolutionary War, 1779.

US Postage Stamp, 1929 issue designed by F.C. Yohn; George Rogers Clark recaptured Fort Sackville in the February 23, 1779 Battle of Vincennes without losing a single soldier

Portrait of George Rogers Clark

Busseron was a Canadian fur trader and militia captain at Vincennes. He sided with the Americans during the Revolutionary War. He and his men buried black power and ammunition when Hamilton retook fort and then offered it (and the support of his 75…

Father Pierre Gibault was born in Montreal, Canada in 1737. Gibault was thirty years old when he was ordained a priest on March 19, 1768. Within months, he was sent into the Illinois country as a missionary for the isolated frontier French…

This is a drawing showing how Clark peacefully won over the French inhabitants of Kaskaskia, assuring a favorable reception from the other French towns, like Vincennes.

This paining is one of seven murals by Ezra Winter installed in December 1934 in the George Rogers Clark Memorial in Vincennes.

Joseph Bowman
Indiana
Major VA State TRPS
Revolutionary War
Aug 18 1779