An American history . possible. Thestory of his exploits reads more like one of James FenimoreCoopers fanciful Indian tales than like sober history; how hesurprised the post at Kaskaskia without a blow, and, by in-trepid assurance and skillful diplomacy, induced the French andIndians of the Mississippi Valley to transfer their allegiancefrom the British Empire to the new American republic; how,when he learned that Colonel Hamilton, the British commanderat Detroit, had seized the fort of Vincennes on the Wabash, heimmediately marched his men in mid-winter over two hundred The Birth of the Natio
An American history . possible. Thestory of his exploits reads more like one of James FenimoreCoopers fanciful Indian tales than like sober history; how hesurprised the post at Kaskaskia without a blow, and, by in-trepid assurance and skillful diplomacy, induced the French andIndians of the Mississippi Valley to transfer their allegiancefrom the British Empire to the new American republic; how,when he learned that Colonel Hamilton, the British commanderat Detroit, had seized the fort of Vincennes on the Wabash, heimmediately marched his men in mid-winter over two hundred The Birth of the Nation 149 miles across the drowned lands of Illinois, sometimes wadingthrough icy water up to their chins, sometimes shivering supper-less on some bleak knoll, but always courageous and confident,until he appeared before the post of Vincennes and summonedthe wonderstricken Hamilton to an immediate and unconditionalsurrender (February, 1779). The capture of Vincennes was thedeathblow of the British power north of the Clarks Virginians crossing the Drowned Lands of Illinois It would be difficult to overestimate the services of Boone,of Robertson, of Sevier, and, above all, of George Rogers Clark,in winning the western region just at the moment when the colo-nies on the seaboard were establishing and defending their inde-pendence. When the negotiations for peace with Great Britainwere opened, it was the achievement of these pioneer conquer-ors that emboldened the new American republic to insist on theMississippi instead of the AUeghenies as its boundary on thewest, and the Great Lakes instead of the Ohio as its boundaryon the north. ISO Separation of the Colonies from England Peace 188. Effect of When the news of Cornwalliss surrender at Yorktown reachedsurrender on Lord North, he threw up his hands and exclaimed, My God !government ^* ^^ ^^ over. The Stubborn king was not so ready to read in Yorktown the doom of his tenacious policy of coercion. Alwaysmistaking the satisfactio
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