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 Cl
The Fall of Fort Sackville by 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.
Capture of Rocheblave by Edward Mason,1895
Clark's march to Vincennes has been depicted by many artists. This illustration is by F. C. Yohn.
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash and Ohio rivers to its south. Of the fifty U.S. sta
Illinois campaign
…force of Virginia militia led by George Rogers Clark seized control of several British outposts in the region northwest of the Ohio River in what is now Illinois and Indiana. 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…
Mississippian copper plate found at the Saddle Site in Union County, Illinois
The bell donated by King Louis XV in 1741 to the French mission at Kaskaskia. It was later called the "Liberty Bell of the West", after it was rung to celebrate U.S. victory in the Revolution
Old State Capitol: Abraham Lincoln and other area legislators were instrumental in moving the state capitol to centrally located Springfield in 1839.
Union troops embarking at Cairo on January 10, 1862