The Conquest Of The Illinois

This book presents the first-hand account of the conquest of Illinois which was wrested from the British in 1770 under the leadership of George Rogers Clark during the American Revolutionary War. Written only a decade after Clark's conquest of Illinois the present-day Illinois and Indiana in the Midwestern United States it shows the region as it existed in the 1770s explains how British occupation affected Kentucky settlers and exhibits Clark's enormous diplomatic skills in convincing the French settlers and Indians along the rivers of Illinois that they were better off under the jurisdiction of the Americans rather than the British.