Indiana's Timeless Tales

Establishment of the Second Town in Indiana - Clarksville
This episode discusses the the second town established in Indiana, Clarksville. Located on the banks of the Ohio River, Clarksville joined Vincennes, located on the Wabash River, as the only towns located in the as yes sparsely settled future Northwest Territory.
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Indiana’s Timeless Tales - 1782 - 1791

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Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands"
This episode relates the beginning of New Amsterdam, which eventually became the city of New York.
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Colonial American History Stories – 1215 – 1664

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Four Events In 1781
Greetings, this episode relates three events that affected Indiana History or occurred in the future state. Virginia, which at the time owned the area that included the state, awarded George Rogers Clark a huge tract of land in payment of for his services in current Clark County. The same day Virginia ceded what would later become the Northwestern Territory to the United States. This led to the ratification of the Articles of Confederation, the first national government for the United States. In August 1781 Colonel Archibald Lochry, along with many of his men, were massacred along Laughery Creek in southeastern Indiana. In October, General George Washington defeated General Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, the last major conflict in the Revolutionary War.
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Indiana’s Timeless Tales - Pre-History to 1781

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Two Battles in Northern Indiana
This episode relates two battles that occurred in northern Indiana during the Revolutionary War, the De La Balme Massacre and the Battle of Trail Creek.
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The Capture of Vincennes and Cementing American Power in the West
In this episode we learn of Clark's expedition to reclaim Vincennes from the British governor Henry Hamilton.
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Capturing an Empire
This episode relates the culmination of of George Rogers Clark's expedition to capture the huge tract of land that would later become the Northwest Territory of the fledgling United States.
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This episode relates the beginning of George Rogers Clark's expedition to capture the huge tract of land that would later become the Northwest Territory of the fledgling United States. The Northwest Territory would later birth Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and of course, Indiana.
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Sir Guy Carleton Incites the Natives
in this episode British Lord Germaine authorized the use of the natives to attack the Americans and new Vincennes Governor Edward Abbot construct Fort Sackville. These events inspired George Rogers Clark to mount his Illinois campaign to stifle native attacks on Kentucky. His action ensured that the vast Illinois country would become part of the United States after the war.
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Virginia Creates Kentucky County and the beginning of the Bloody 77
Upon approval of the gunpowder for Kentucky, Clark wrote and sent a letter to the settlers in Kentucky, informing them that the supply would arrive at Fort Pitt and that they should dispatch some men to and get it. The settlers never received the letter. Clark and Jones then settled in to wait for the fall session of the legislature.
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George Gibson's Secret Mission To New Orleans

George Washington's army was perilously short on gunpowder. Captain George Gibson, namesake of Gibson County in Indiana, sought to alleviate this problem in 1776 by precipitating a secret mission to New Orleans to obtain some from the Spanish. 
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