George Rogers Clark Quotes
Great things have been effected by a few men well conducted.
Clark, George Rogers. George Rogers Clark Papers 1771-1781. Edited by James Alton James, Illinois State Historical Library, 1912, p. 119.
Written when he was forced to share command with General Francois Kellerman.
While running for office he was trying to win the support of Republcian Conservatives who were very unhappyt with their percieved lack of progress in fighting ISIS. However, this was insulting to many military people--especiually since ISIS was being deprived of they sources of funding and oil trade, their leaders were being killed at a rapid rate, and they were losign most of their territory. After he won the Presidency, on the very night of his inaguration he then flip flopped and paraised the general leadship of the military with this quotation. While most politicans had a certain degree of hypocricy, Trump could make totally contrdictory statements without any embarassment. See his earlier contracictory Quote 644332.
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".
