GEORGE ROGERS CLARK
a Shoshone Indian woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark in exploring the Louisiana Territory
The British, with few troops in the West, armed Indians and paid for American scalps.
Jefferson had offered the command of the large expedition to General Clark, but instead was persuaded by him to send a smaller force headed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (no relation to the General.)
George Rogers Clark was an American surveyor, soldier, and militia officer from Virginia who became the highest-ranking American patriot military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the militia in Kentucky (then part of Virginia) throughout much of the war. He is best known for his celebrated captures of Kaskaskia (1778) and Vincennes (1779) during the Illinois Campaign, which greatly weakened British influence in the Northwest Territory. The British ceded the entire Northwest Territory to the United States in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, and Clark has often been hailed as the "Conqueror of the Old Northwest".
