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Name: Illinois Campaign

Type: Event

Start: 1778 AD

End: 1779 AD

Parent: Western theatre of the American Revolutionary War

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Was a series of engagements during the American Revolutionary War in which a small force of Virginia militia led by George Rogers Clark seized control of several British posts in the Illinois Country of the Province of Quebec, located in modern-day Illinois and Indiana in the Midwestern United States.

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  • July 1778: In late 1778, George Rogers Clark, a militia officer from Virginia, launched a campaign to take over the Illinois country, where the British had few garrisons. With a company of volunteers, Clark captured Kaskaskia.
  • January 1779: U.S. troops capture Vincennes at the end of 1778.
  • February 1779: Clark marches on Vincennes in a surprise winter march and captures British Lieutenant Hamilton.
  • January 1779: The combined British/Indian column of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Hamilton recaptures the distant settlement of Vincennes (Indiana) from Captain Leonard Helm.

    • Selected Sources

  • Fredriksen, J.C. (2010): Chronology of American Military History - Volume 1, Facts On File, p.86
  • Fredriksen, J.C. (2010): Chronology of American Military History - Volume 1, Facts On File, p.91
  • Fredriksen, J.C. (2010): Chronology of American Military History - Volume 1, Facts On File, p.94

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