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George Rogers Clark quotes

Life: November 19, 1752 - February 13, 1818

Birthday: November 19

Death: February 13


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Great things have been effected by a few men well conducted;

source: - Robert C. Alberts, George Rogers Clark (1975). “George Rogers Clark and the Winning of the Old Northwest”

Topics: Men, Great Things, Wells

Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men.

source: - "The Buffalo Trace" by George R. Wilson, Indiana Historical Society Publications, volume 15, number 2, Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, (pp. 189), 1946.

Topics: Opportunity, Men, Victory

I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.

source: - "Conquest of the Country Northwest of the River Ohio, 1778 - 1783, and Life of Gen. George Rogers Clark" by William Hayden English, vol. 2, (p. 789), 1896.

Topics: Suffering, Honor, Poverty


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