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GEORGE ROGERS CLARK STATE MEMORIAL
VINCENNES, INDIANA
INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION
THE MEMORIAL
DIVISION OF STATE PARKS
This memorial commemorates the winning of the old Northwest
by Col. Clark and his frontiersmen in the war of the American
Revolution. Clark and his little heroic army composed of about
170 men, captured old Fort Sackville here and caused the Brit-
ish under Gen. Hamilton to surrender on the morning of Febru-
ary 25, 1779. This was more than 2½ years prior to the
surrender of Cornwallis to George Washington at Yorktown.
The memorial was erected by the federal government at a cost
of some $2,500,000 on land donated by Knox County and the
City of Vincennes.
Color by Ferman M. Yearby, Jr.
Photo & Published by Yearby Studios, 4th and Elm Sts., Rockport, Ind.
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