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Today, episode 210, Fort Vincennes and the Northwest Territory.

In early 1779, a group of Virginians attacked Fort Vincennes,

which sits on the Walbache River in what is today Indiana, right on the Illinois border.

In 1779, this was deep into Indian territory where few people of European descent had settled or even traveled.

This week I want to take a closer look at the Western dispute that flared up so far away

from the main areas of battle.

The British retained outposts deep in the continent's interior in order to maintain claims

to all the land that had not been settled or governed by any other European power.

The few white settlers in the area were almost all French whose families had come to what is today

Canada before the British took control of that region in the 1760s.

Henry Hamilton was the British official who was in charge of the area.

He was Irish by birth and was not of any relation

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