George Rogers Clark and William Croghan : a story of the Revolution, settlement, and early life at Locust Grove / Gwynne Tuell Potts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potts, Gwynne Tuell, 1948- author.

Series:

Kentucky scholarship online.

Kentucky scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pioneers--Kentucky--Biography.

Pioneers.

Louisville (Ky.)--Biography.

Louisville (Ky.).

Louisville (Ky.)--History--18th century.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

United States.

United States. Continental Army--Biography.

Locust Grove (Louisville, Ky. : Estate)--History.

Locust Grove (Louisville, Ky. : Estate).

Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818.

Clark, George Rogers.

Croghan, William, 1752-1823.

Croghan, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2020.

Summary:

The book's theme is 18th- and early 19th-century conflict and settlement in the Ohio River valley, told within the context of the national and international events that led to the American Revolution and guided Kentucky's postwar future. "Colonel" George Croghan serves as the exemplar of Britain's trans-Appalachian experience. The Revolution was fought in three theaters; the northern belonged to George Washington, and among his officers was Croghan's nephew, Major William Croghan. The major joined the southern theater at the moment the Continental Army surrendered to Britain in Charleston. The third theater was the Revolution in the West, and its leader was Virginia colonel, later general, George Rogers Clark, whose vision secured the old Northwest Territory for the new nation. Taken together, the war adventures of Clark and Croghan epitomize the American course of the Revolution.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 14, 2020).

ISBN:

9780813178707

0813178703

9780813178691

081317869X

9780813178684

0813178681

OCLC:

1125324714