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To: vannrox

Thanks for posting, I am from Indiana and on my last trip there visited a cemetery where some relatives are buried. I was surprised to see headstones dating back to the Revolutionary war.


2 posted on 10/30/2018 7:02:24 PM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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In 1775 the American Revolutionary War began as the colonists sought more self-government and independence from the British. The majority of the fighting took place near the East Coast, but the Patriot military officer George Rogers Clark called for an army to help fight the British in the west.[17] Clark's army won significant battles and took over Vincennes and Fort Sackville on February 25, 1779.[18] During the war, Clark managed to cut off British troops, who were attacking the eastern colonists from the west. His success is often credited for changing the course of the American Revolutionary War.[19] At the end of the war, through the Treaty of Paris, the British crown ceded their claims to the land south of the Great Lakes to the newly formed United States, including American Indian lands.

8 posted on 10/30/2018 7:26:49 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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