1779

   One day my oldest son came home from school and began to talk about what he learned at school that day.He began to recite what his teacher had told him but got some of the information wrong, so I began to explain to my children that that the Native Americans controlled all lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.Both the British and the Patriots tried to enlist these groups in their cause. George Rogers Clark volunteered to lead the western campaign. Clark had been a surveyor along the Ohio and Kentucky rivers. By the time the war broke out, he knew the lands of the Midwest well. Clark created an army from the scattered settlements in the area. One of the best-known groups is the Over Mountain Men, a band of settlers from present-day Tennessee.


Deverell, William, and Deborah Gray. White. United States History: Beginnings to 1877. Orlando, FL: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2007. Print.

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