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YEAR
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DATE
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PLACE
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EVENT
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1775
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"Shot heard 'round the world" fired in Lexington,
Massachusetts
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1776
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Declaration of Independence
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1777
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1778
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1778
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Ouiatenon
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Captain Leonard Helm arrives at Fort Ouiatenon and secures it for the Americans.
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20 July 1778
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Vincennes
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Colonel George Rogers Clark sends Father Pierre Gibault and Dr. Jean Laffont to
secure Ft. Sackville in Vincennes.
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2 Dec 1778
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Ouiatenon
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Major Hay raises the flag of St. George (England) at Ouiatenon.
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17 Dec 1778
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Vincennes
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Lt. Governor Hamilton arrives in Vincennes and reclaims Ft. Sackville for Great
Britain.
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1779
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6 Feb 1779
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Colonel Clark embarks from Kaskaskia, Illinois on a 210 mile march
to Vincennes
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23 Feb 1779
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Vincennes
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Colonel Clark arrives in Vincennes and lays seige to Ft Sackville. Hamilton surrenders
on the 25th.
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Feb 1779
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Ouiatenon
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Captain I. Shelby and his company stay at Ouiatenon and receive promises of cooperation
from the Wea.
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2 Mar 1779
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Pointe Coupee,
Wabash River
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Capt. Leonard Helm, commanding 3 boats and 50 volunteers from Vincennes, captures
a British reinforcement fleet of 7 boats carrying 40 soldiers, valuable supplies,
and Indian trade goods. This action completes the destruction of British military
strength in the Wabash Valley.
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1780
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5 Nov 1780
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Eel River
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Miami Chief Little Turtle defeats forces under Colonel Augustin LeBalme.
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5 Dec 1780
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Le Petit Fort
(near Tremont)
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Americans under command of Lt. Thomas Brady and Jean Baptiste Hamelin, returning
from a successful raid on Ft. St. Joseph, are overtaken by pursuing natives and
traders loyal to Great Britain. The loyalists suffered no casualties while most
of the Americans were killed or captured. |
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1781
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Jan-Feb 1781
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St. Joseph expedition
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Francisco Cruzat, Spanish Governor at St. Louis (Missouri), sent an expedition to
raid and capture Fort St. Joseph (Michigan). Captain Eugene Poure leads the militia
up the Illinois River to Lake Peoria, then travelled by land across Indiana to Fort
St. Joseph. They held the fort and raised the Spanish flag for one day, captured
supplies the British had planned to use in an attack that Spring, then they returned
to St. Louis.
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24 Aug 1781
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Lochry's Defeat
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Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant and his men killed or captured nearly 100 Pennsylvania
militiamen under Colonel Archibald Lochry without suffering any casualties.
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General Lord Cornwalis surrenders at Yorktown, Virginia
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1782
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1783
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Treaty of Paris signed
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