INDEPENDENCE DAY: Brigadier General George Rogers Clark, commanding the Militia of Virginia, captures Fort Kaskaskia, on the Mississippi River. As a result, the Commonwealth of Virginia lays claim to the British enclave of Quebec (a.k.a. Northwest Territories).
[restored 8/7/2021]
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 25.
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