Lieutenant Colonel Clark and his officers, after…
May 1778 CE
The men gather in early May near the Falls of the Ohio, south of Fort Pitt.
The group of one hundred and fifty soldiers, eventually known as the Illinois Regiment spends about a month along the Ohio River preparing for its secret mission.
They set out or the Illinois Country on May 12 from Redstone, today's Brownsville, Pennsylvania, taking along eighty civilians who hope to claim fertile farmland and start a new settlement in Kentucky, and ...