Vincennes
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Oct 1, 2026
Trevin JensenHOST
And by the way, what school was that? It
Noah GlomskiGUEST
was Vincennes University.
Noah GlomskiGUEST
Okay,
Trevin JensenHOST
Vincennes.
Trevin JensenHOST
And then all of a sudden, you're seeing the Jensens and the Weavers in a house in Minneapolis.
Trevin JensenHOST
Oh, my
36 MINS LATER
Noah GlomskiGUEST
But it wasn't like, oh, school's so hard, I can't get A's, I'm going to drop out.
Noah GlomskiGUEST
It wasn't that angle.
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It was they who gave the East no rest until their vision was seen by the leaders on the seaboard who directed the course of national policy.
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It was one of their number, a seasoned Indian fighter, George Rogers Clark, who, with aid from Virginia, seized Kaskaskia and Vincennes and secured the whole Northwest to the Union while the fate of Washington's army was still hanging in the balance.
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Western Problems at the End of the Revolution The Treaty of Peace signed with Great Britain in 1783 brought the definite cession of the coveted territory west to the Mississippi River, but it left unsolved many problems.
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In the first place, tribes of resentful Indians in the Ohio region, even though British support was withdrawn at last, had to be reckoned with.
Tony MerkelHOST
East or west?
Jade MapesGUEST
It's, like, 45 minutes from Vincennes.
Jade MapesGUEST
You know where Vincennes, Indiana is?
Tony MerkelHOST
No, but if, if you're talking about Evansville, Indiana-
Jade MapesGUEST
I think in, I think it's-
Susan Brynne LongGUEST
But eventually, this is going to become Kentucky.
Susan Brynne LongGUEST
So George Rogers Clark is going to lead basically a force of frontiersmen against key British outposts, including Vincennes.
Susan Brynne LongGUEST
And this is going to significantly weaken British outposts in the Northwest Territory and also further north.
Susan Brynne LongGUEST
So he gets this moniker attached to him by virtue of his by virtue of his Illinois campaign, he becomes known as the conqueror of the old Northwest.
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Susan Brynne LongGUEST
But there are several Americans who say that they would like his head, but Jefferson does not allow that.
Lee ReynoldsHOST
Of these battles, what are some of the important, significant battles that occurred on the frontier?
Susan Brynne LongGUEST
So within the Illinois campaign, probably the most famous one would be the capture of Vincennes.
Susan Brynne LongGUEST
There were still lots of French settlements, or not French settlements, they're under British control, but there's French settlers there.
speaker_5NARRATOR
It was they who gave the East no rest until their vision was seen by the leaders on the seaboard who directed the course of national policy.
speaker_5NARRATOR
It was one of their number, a seasoned Indian fighter, George Rogers Clark, who, with aid from Virginia, seized Kaskaskia and Vincennes and secured the whole Northwest to the Union while the fate of Washington's army was still hanging in the balance.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Western Problems at the End of the Revolution The Treaty of Peace, signed with Great Britain in 1783, brought the definite cession of the coveted territory west to the Mississippi River, but it left unsolved many problems.
speaker_5NARRATOR
In the first place, tribes of resentful Indians in the Ohio region, even though British support was withdrawn at last, had to be reckoned with.
Ted LeinhartNARRATOR
The earliest manuscripts in the Draper collection are some documents concerning McDowell's fight in the Valley of Virginia, 1742, just mentioned.
Ted LeinhartNARRATOR
There is also George Rogers Clark's original manuscript narrative of his famous expedition to Kaskaskia and Vincennes in 1778, a volume of some 225 pages.
Ted LeinhartNARRATOR
The earliest original manuscript diary in the collection is one kept by Captain William Preston, who commanded a company under Lewis during the Sandy Creek expedition in West Virginia in 1756.
Ted LeinhartNARRATOR
There are several diaries on the Point Pleasant campaign in West Virginia in 1774. numerous diaries relate to kentucky one of them kept by george rogers clark in seventeen seventy six and another by colonel william fleming during an early trip to the dark and bloody ground some diaries on st clair's and wayne's campaigns are of especial interest but the foregoing are merely sample treasures as the old frontier heroes were not noted for keeping diaries the great number and remarkable character of the rich material among the draper manuscripts strongly illustrate to all those who have essayed collections of this sort his arduous labors of a lifetime in eighteen forty one while in the midst of his chosen task Draper drifted to Pontotoc in northern Mississippi, where he became part owner and editor of a small weekly journal entitled Spirit of the Times.
speaker_0NARRATOR
It was they who gave the East no rest until their vision was seen by the leaders on the seaboard who directed the course of national policy.
speaker_0NARRATOR
It was one of their number, a seasoned Indian fighter, George Rogers Clark, who, with aid from Virginia, seized Kaskaskia and Vincennes and secured the whole Northwest to the Union while the fate of Washington's army was still hanging in the balance.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Western Problems at the End of the Revolution The Treaty of Peace signed with Great Britain in 1783 brought the definite cession of the coveted territory west to the Mississippi River, but it left unsolved many problems.
speaker_0NARRATOR
In the first place, tribes of resentful Indians in the Ohio region, even though British support was withdrawn at last, had to be reckoned with.
TomAUDIENCE
Hey, Michael.
TomAUDIENCE
Tom from historic Vincennes, Indiana, hitting all the hard-hitting news here.
TomAUDIENCE
No, I actually had a cat named Dumpster that we found at the dump-
Michael DelGiornoHOST
Really?
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