Monday, July 4, 2011

The Battle of Vincennes

On this day in 1776,

The Continental Congress approves the Declaration of Independence.

And in 1778,

Lt. Col. George Rogers Clark, fresh from his victorious campaign against the Kaskaskia and Cahokia settlements on the Illinois, captures Vincennes, a settlement of about seven hundred inhabitants on the Wabash River at The Battle of Vincennes.
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