Vincennes• George Rogers Clark from the

Virginia militia set out to stop the attacks on western settlers• July 1778- Clark and 175 soldiers

went down the Ohio River• Took Kaskaskia and then

Vincennes• Henry Hamilton then took

Vincennes back in December• Clark vowed to get it back• February 1779- Clark surprised

the British and forced Hamilton to surrender• This strengthened the American

position in the West

1778

• Indian War: •George Rogers

Clark•Wyoming (July

3, 1778)

More Native Americans sided with the British.They seemed less of a threat than the Americans. Why would the Native Americans see the Patriots as less of a threat?West of the Appalachian Mountains, the British and their Native American allies raided American settlements. Mohawk war chief Joseph Brant led a number of brutal attacks in southwestern New York and northern Pennsylvania. Farther west, Henry Hamilton, British commander at Detroit, paid Native Americans for settlers' scalps. This practice earned him the nickname, the "hair buyer."