A history of Virginia for boys and girls . red milesto Fort Kaskaskia. This they captured on July4, 1778. Kaskaskia was about sixty miles southof St. Louis. 158 A HISTORY OF VIRGINIA In the following winter Clark and his menmarched nearly two hundred miles eastward andcaptured Fort Vincennes, February 24, fort was on the east bank of the WabashRiver, in what is now the state of Indiana. Ifyou read an interesting book called *Alice of Old Vincennes you willnot forget the the capture ofKaskaskia, Vincennes,and other placesClark and his mengot control of all thevast Illinois co
A history of Virginia for boys and girls . red milesto Fort Kaskaskia. This they captured on July4, 1778. Kaskaskia was about sixty miles southof St. Louis. 158 A HISTORY OF VIRGINIA In the following winter Clark and his menmarched nearly two hundred miles eastward andcaptured Fort Vincennes, February 24, fort was on the east bank of the WabashRiver, in what is now the state of Indiana. Ifyou read an interesting book called *Alice of Old Vincennes you willnot forget the the capture ofKaskaskia, Vincennes,and other placesClark and his mengot control of all thevast Illinois thus in thehands of Virginia atthe close of theRevolution in 1783,it remained it wouldin all probabilityhave gone to GreatBritain and would accordingly be a part of Canadato-day. In 1784 Virginia gave all of her Illinois country— her northwest territory — to the United Statesgovernment. In 1787 it, with the adjoiningcessions of two or three other states, was organizedunder the famous Northwest Ordinance (Ordi=. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK, THEOF THE west HANNIBAL THE HANNIBAL OF THE WEST 159 nance of 1787) ; and later, at one time and an-other, it was divided up into the great states oflUinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and part of Minnesota was also carved out of it. Thus we see how important the conquest of theIllinois country was. It was not only one of themost splendid deeds of the Revolution, it wasone of the greatest achievements in Americanhistory. Clark at the time was only twenty-seven ; and he had less than two hundred men. The remainder of his life Clark lived in Ken-tucky, dying there in poverty in the year grave is somewhere in one of the cemeteriesof Louisville. Unfortunately he weakened hislater life by hard drinking; otherwise he woulddoubtless have been a governor of Kentucky ora member of Congress from that state. General Clark had a brother William, who alsobecame famous. William Clark was one of theleaders of the grea
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