Written only a decade after George Rogers Clark’s conquest of Illinois, this firsthand account 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. In his new foreword to this book, Rand Burnette refers to Clark as a psychologist and an expert in human relations.
Believing the British responsible for Indian raids on the people of Kentucky, Clark determined to capture that area, which was claimed by his home state of Virginia. “His plan, which he presented to Governor Patrick Henry,” Burnette notes, “was to take possession of the Illinois country by defeating the British at Kaskaskia, win the support of the French in that area, and thus control both the Mississippi and the Ohio Rivers. The British support of the Indians, who raided the Kentucky settlements from the Illinois country, would be at an end.”..
Название: The Conquest of The Illinois (Shawnee Classics)
Автор: George Rogers Clark (Author), Milo Milton Quaife (Editor), Dr. Rand Burnette Ph.D. (Foreword)
Издательство: Southern Illinois University Press
Год издания: 2001
ISBN-10: 0809323788
Страниц: 224 pages
Язык: english
Формат: pdf в rar
Размер: 9.6 Мб
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