Fort Massac
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Fort Massac is a French colonial and early National-era fort on the Ohio River in Massac County, Illinois, United States.
The 2002 reconstruction of the 1802 Fort Massac, with the Ohio River in the background. The original, 1757 French fort foundation impression, can be seen at center-right, beyond the trees.
Fort Massac foundation impression, photograph pre-1920.
George Rogers Clark
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George Rogers Clark was an American military officer and surveyor from Virginia who became the highest-ranking Patriot military officer on the northwestern frontier during the Revolutionary War. He se
Fort Massac
…fort at the conclusion of the war, and it was destroyed by the Chickasaw sometime after 1763. In 1778, during the American Revolutionary War, Colonel George Rogers Clark led his regiment of "Long Knives" into Illinois near the site of the fort at Massac Creek. The fort was rebuilt in 1794, during the Northwest Indian…
Posthumous portrait by James B. Longacre, after John Wesley Jarvis, c. 1830
Depiction of George Rogers Clark recapturing Fort Sackville at the Battle of Vincennes on U.S. postage stamp, 1929 issue
Clark's march to Vincennes was the most celebrated event of his career; it has been often depicted, as in this illustration by F. C. Yohn.
Virginia Land Office warrant to Clark for 560 acres for having raised a battalion to fight in the Revolutionary War, January 1780