“If a country is not worth protecting, it is not worth claiming.”

— George Rogers Clark

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About George Rogers Clark

Military Officer • American

George Rogers Clark was a surveyor and soldier from Virginia who became the highest-ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the Revolutionary War. He spent most of the war as the leader of...

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