Excerpt from History of George Rogers Clark's Conquest of the Illinois and the Wabash Towns, 1778 and 1779 The heroic band which, under lieutenant-colonel George Rogers Clark, m 1778 reduced the Illinois, and early in 1779 captured Lieutenant - Governor Henry Hamil ton and his force at Vincennes upon the Wabash, was the Western 'advance - Guard of the Revolution. Its successes were the most important of any gained by the Americans over the British and Indians northwest of the Ohio during the war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.