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The War in the West

The Revolutionary War in the West was a war for land, fought between colonial and native peoples.

10/02/2025

Across Indiana

The War in the West

Season 2025 Episode 9 | 9m 19sVideo has Closed Captions

The Revolutionary War in the West was a war for land, fought between colonial and native peoples.

In the late 1800s, George Rogers Clark became a symbol of the Revolutionary War in the heartlands. Lionized as “The Conqueror of the Northwest”, Clark’s victory at the Siege of Vincennes isn’t quite as it seems. The war in the west was no grand effort in the founding of a nation, but a war over valuable land fought between the British, the Americans, and Native tribes who called that land home.

10/02/2025

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Across Indiana

The War in the West

Season 2025 Episode 9 | 9m 19sVideo has Closed Captions

In the late 1800s, George Rogers Clark became a symbol of the Revolutionary War in the heartlands. Lionized as “The Conqueror of the Northwest”, Clark’s victory at the Siege of Vincennes isn’t quite as it seems. The war in the west was no grand effort in the founding of a nation, but a war over valuable land fought between the British, the Americans, and Native tribes who called that land home.

10/02/2025

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