George Rogers Clark (1752-1818)
George Rogers Clark was born near Charlottesville, Virginia, traveled west and settled in Kentucky in the early 1770s, despite the British prohibition of such western settlements. At the outbreak of the Revolution, these isolated outposts were subject to Indian attacks. Clark successfully lobbied the Virginia legislature to consider Kentucky a county of Virginia, which qualified it for governmental protection. Clark spent the duration of the Revolution running effective military campaigns [...] Click here to continue reading.