Illinois campaign
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The Illinois campaign, also known as Clark's Northwestern campaign, 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. The campaign is the best-known action of the western theater of the war and the source of Clark's reputation as an early American military hero.
The Fall of Fort Sackville, Frederick C. Yohn, 1923
No authentic portraits from life of George Rogers Clark were made during the Revolutionary era. This portrait of an older Clark was painted by Matthew Harris Jouett in 1825, after the death of Clark.
Rocheblave and his wife were captured while in bed. (Illustration by Edward Mason 1895)
Clark's march to Vincennes has been depicted in many paintings, such as this illustration by F. C. Yohn.
Prairie du Rocher, Illinois
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Prairie du Rocher is a village in Randolph County, Illinois, United States. Founded in the French colonial period in the American Midwest, the community is located near bluffs that flank the east side of the Mississippi River along the floodplain often called the "American Bottom". The population was 502 at the 2020 census.
A grain elevator in Prairie du Rocher
Creole House
Road sign
French-Colonial style house