George Rogers Clark Monument - Indianapolis, Indiana
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BruceS
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Monument honoring of Revolutionary War general next to the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Waymark Code: WMD9GG
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 12/09/2011
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Full-length statue of General George Rogers Clark wearing a Revolutionary War era military uniform with a three cornered hat. He is holding a sword in his right hand and gesturing his this troops on with his upraised left arm. The statue is standing on a limestone base with a plaque inscribed:
General
George Rogers Clark.
Conqueror
Of The Country
Northwest Of The River Ohio
From The British
1778-9
The statue was placed in honor of the highest ranking officer in the Northwest Territories during the Revolutionary War.
From Wikipedia:
"George Rogers Clark (November 19, 1752 – February 13, 1818) was a soldier from Virginia and the highest ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the Kentucky (then part of Virginia) militia throughout much of the war. Clark is best known for his celebrated captures of Kaskaskia (1778) and Vincennes (1779), which greatly weakened British influence in the Northwest Territory. Because the British ceded the entire Northwest Territory to the United States in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, Clark has often been hailed as the 'Conqueror of the Old Northwest.'"