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Title: Conquest of the country northwest of the river Ohio, 1778-1783 : and, life of Gen. George Rogers Clark
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: English, William Hayden, 1822-1896
Subjects: Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818 Clark family Clark's Expedition to the Illinois (1778-1779) Clark's Expedition against Detroit, 1781
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. Kansas City, Mo. : Bowen-Merrill Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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e shore they were overwhelmedwith congratulations over the success of the expeditionwhich had been conducted with excellent judgment, andthe result was of great importance to the American cause.This little naval campaign on the Wabash was in fact thelast act in transferring the Wabash country from British toAmerican rule, under which it has since remained and will,no doubt, remain forever. If Clark had then been in condition to march againstDetroit at once he could have carried the whole of thefighting population of Vincennes with him, so great wasthe enthusiasm excited by this campaign. To do so washis first impulse, although he concealed it from the public,but he finally modified his views somewhat, and concludedto defer the forward movement until June, by which timehe expected promised re-enforcements from Virginia andKentucky to arrive. The division among the soldiers ofthe valuable spoils which had been captured greatly in-creased the desire for further enterprises. In his memoir
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EXPEDITION AGAINST DETROIT CONTEMPLATED. 361 Clark fully explains this as well as the reasons for and againsta movement upon Detroit. Of the captured goods he says:The whole was divided among the soldiery, except someIndian medals that were kept in order to be altered forpublic use. The officers received nothing, except a fewarticles of clothing that they stood in need of. The soldiersgot almost rich. Others envied their good fortune, andwished that some enterprise might be undertaken, toenable them to perform some exploit. Detroit was theirobject. The clamor had now got to a great height; to silenceit, and to answer other purposes, they were told that anarni)r was to march the ensuing summer from Pittsburg totake possession of Detroit, although, from the last fallsproceedings, we knew that no such thing was to be appre-hended. Although Clark seemed to publicly discourage the ideathat he had any thought of moving against Detroit it was,in fact, uppermost in his thoughts, and this not

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