Author: Gwynne Tuell Potts
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081317869X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This dual biography focuses on the lives of two very different men who fought for and settled the American West and whose vision secured the old Northwest Territory for the new nation. The two represented contrasting American experiences: famed military leader George Rogers Clark was from the Virginia planter class. William Croghan was an Irish immigrant with tight family ties to the British in America. Yet their lives would intersect in ways that would make independence and western settlement possible. The war experiences of Clark and Croghan epitomize the American course of the Revolution. Croghan fought in the Revolutionary War at Trenton and spent the winter of 1777–1778 at Valley Forge with George Washington and LaFayette before being taken prisoner at Charleston. Clark, known as the "Hannibal of the West," was famous for his victorious Illinois campaign against the British and as an Indian fighter. Following the war, Croghan became Clark's deputy surveyor of military lands for the Virginia State Line, enabling him to acquire some 54,000 acres on the edge of the American frontier. Croghan's marriage to Lucy Clark, George Rogers Clark's sister, solidified his position in society. Clark, however, was regularly called by Virginia and the federal government to secure peace in the Ohio River Valley, leading to his financial ruin and emotional decline. Croghan remained at Clark's side throughout it all, even as he prospered in the new world they had fought to create, while Clark languished. These men nevertheless worked and eventually lived together, bound by the familial connections they shared and a political ideology honed by the Revolution.
George Rogers Clark and William Croghan
Author: Gwynne Tuell Potts
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081317869X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This dual biography focuses on the lives of two very different men who fought for and settled the American West and whose vision secured the old Northwest Territory for the new nation. The two represented contrasting American experiences: famed military leader George Rogers Clark was from the Virginia planter class. William Croghan was an Irish immigrant with tight family ties to the British in America. Yet their lives would intersect in ways that would make independence and western settlement possible. The war experiences of Clark and Croghan epitomize the American course of the Revolution. Croghan fought in the Revolutionary War at Trenton and spent the winter of 1777–1778 at Valley Forge with George Washington and LaFayette before being taken prisoner at Charleston. Clark, known as the "Hannibal of the West," was famous for his victorious Illinois campaign against the British and as an Indian fighter. Following the war, Croghan became Clark's deputy surveyor of military lands for the Virginia State Line, enabling him to acquire some 54,000 acres on the edge of the American frontier. Croghan's marriage to Lucy Clark, George Rogers Clark's sister, solidified his position in society. Clark, however, was regularly called by Virginia and the federal government to secure peace in the Ohio River Valley, leading to his financial ruin and emotional decline. Croghan remained at Clark's side throughout it all, even as he prospered in the new world they had fought to create, while Clark languished. These men nevertheless worked and eventually lived together, bound by the familial connections they shared and a political ideology honed by the Revolution.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081317869X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This dual biography focuses on the lives of two very different men who fought for and settled the American West and whose vision secured the old Northwest Territory for the new nation. The two represented contrasting American experiences: famed military leader George Rogers Clark was from the Virginia planter class. William Croghan was an Irish immigrant with tight family ties to the British in America. Yet their lives would intersect in ways that would make independence and western settlement possible. The war experiences of Clark and Croghan epitomize the American course of the Revolution. Croghan fought in the Revolutionary War at Trenton and spent the winter of 1777–1778 at Valley Forge with George Washington and LaFayette before being taken prisoner at Charleston. Clark, known as the "Hannibal of the West," was famous for his victorious Illinois campaign against the British and as an Indian fighter. Following the war, Croghan became Clark's deputy surveyor of military lands for the Virginia State Line, enabling him to acquire some 54,000 acres on the edge of the American frontier. Croghan's marriage to Lucy Clark, George Rogers Clark's sister, solidified his position in society. Clark, however, was regularly called by Virginia and the federal government to secure peace in the Ohio River Valley, leading to his financial ruin and emotional decline. Croghan remained at Clark's side throughout it all, even as he prospered in the new world they had fought to create, while Clark languished. These men nevertheless worked and eventually lived together, bound by the familial connections they shared and a political ideology honed by the Revolution.
GEORGE ROGERS CLARK AND WILLIAM CROGHAN
Author: TUELL POTTS.
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ISBN: 9780813178707
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William Croghan's Account of George Rogers Clark
William Croghan's Account of George Rogers Clark
Author: William Croghan
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Description: AD William Croghan. Account of George Rogers Clark listing sundry items icluding whisky, horses, warrants, military certificates.
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Description: AD William Croghan. Account of George Rogers Clark listing sundry items icluding whisky, horses, warrants, military certificates.
George Rogers Hancock Clark to William Croghan Regarding Lands on Cumberland
Author: George Rogers Hancock Clark
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Description: George Rogers Hancock Clark, Louisville, to William Croghan. Regarding lands on Cumberland. [JO{u2019}FC].
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Description: George Rogers Hancock Clark, Louisville, to William Croghan. Regarding lands on Cumberland. [JO{u2019}FC].
George Rogers Clark Papers
Author: George Rogers Clark
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Category : Clark's Expedition against Detroit, 1781
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Category : Clark's Expedition against Detroit, 1781
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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William Croghan to George Rogers Hancock Clark Concerning Relinquishment of Title to Cumberland Lands
William Croghan, Locust Grove, to Dennis Fitzhugh. Happy to Hear of Children’s Safe Arrival Home. He Knows Nothing of the Business Except that George Rogers Clark Made the Land Entry in Behalf of the State of Virginia and Any Steps Taken by Fitzhugh Will be Agreeable to William Clark and the Heirs of George Rogers Clark
Conveyance of George Rogers Clark’s Land Below the Tennessee to William Croghan, Owen Gwathmey and Dennis Fitzhugh in Payment for Assistance in Suit Regarding Claims
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Description: ADS. The contemporary copy of William Clark.
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Description: ADS. The contemporary copy of William Clark.