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Discover your perfect day in a park at find your park.com. In the town of Vincennes, Indiana, stands the largest bow art style monument on an American battlefield outside of Washington, D.C.

It sits on the former site of Fort Sackville to commemorate a little-known battle with tremendous stakes.

A rarely told story that increased the size of our country dramatically.

I'm Jason Epperson, and on this episode of America's National Parks, the George

Rogers Clark National Historical Park. Here's Abigail Trepue. So, Oh, you know, it's not. George Rogers Clark was born on November 19th, 1752 near Charlottesville, Virginia, the hometown of Thomas Jefferson.

He was the second of ten children of John and Anne Rogers Clark, who were of English and

Scottish ancestry.

Five of their six sons became officers during the American Revolutionary War.

Their youngest son, William, wasn't yet old enough to fight, but later found fame

as one half of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

George Clark had little formal education.

When he was old enough he lived with his grandfather who trained him to be a surveyor.

In 1771 at age 19, Clark left home for his first surveying trip into Western Virginia.

The following year, he made his first trip into Western Virginia. The following year he made his first trip into Kentucky

and spent the next two years surveying the Kanaw River region, as well as learning about

the area's natural history and customs of the various tribes of Indians who lived there.

Clark's military career began in 1774 when he was appointed as a captain in the Virginia militia.

He was preparing to lead an expedition of 90 men down the Ohio River

when hostilities broke out between the Shawnee and white settlers. Although most of Kentucky was not inhabited by Indians, tribes

such as the Shani, Cherokee, and Seneca used the area for hunting. A judge from North Carolina had purchased much of Kentucky from the

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