During this period of time in 1779 there occurred actions in what was called ”The Old Northwest” which a bit later resulted in enormous land additions to the fledgling United States when the British finally accepted defeat in the War of American Independence.
George Rogers Clark and a small American detachment often wading thru freezing chest deep water and over a “drowned land” drove the British from their strongpoints in Indiana and Ohio and Illinois and finally to Fort Sackville, drove the British back to Detroit and defeated Henry Hamilton the so called “hair buyer”.
To summarize, Rogers force established the American presence in the area so that when the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783 The “Old Northwest Territories” (ie, the British territories west of the Appalachians) were ceded to the US thus doubling the size of our new country.
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George Rogers Clark and a small American detachment often wading thru freezing chest deep water and over a “drowned land” drove the British from their strongpoints in Indiana and Ohio and Illinois and finally to Fort Sackville, drove the British back to Detroit and defeated Henry Hamilton the so called “hair buyer”.
To summarize, Rogers force established the American presence in the area so that when the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783 The “Old Northwest Territories” (ie, the British territories west of the Appalachians) were ceded to the US thus doubling the size of our new country.
I think most of this is available thru Google and will not waste bandwidth.
