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Painting depicts the surrender of British-held Fort Sackville by Henry Hamilton, lieutenant governor of Detroit, to George Rogers Clark on February 25, 1779. This victory helped the Americans gain control of the region north of the Ohio River and…

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…

In 1869, Clark family members had the remains of the General exhumed and reinterred in the Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, where he still rests today.

Gravestone for Gen. George Rogers Clark.
Born Q. S. NOV. 9, 1752
DIED FEB. 13, 1818

Artifacts such as a brass tinkler, brass crucifix, pipe fragment, and ceramic fragments

Historic artifacts recovered from one of the excavated trenches

The Virginia (State) Council outlines why Henry Hamilton is being held as a Prisoner of War in Williamsburg.