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  2. Treason of the Long Knives - Wikipedia

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    The Night of the Long Knives was a Purge carried out by the Nazi Party in Germany over several days in 1934. References to 'Long Knives' may have been initially understood in a pejorative sense in accusations of treachery, but came to be adopted by the Nazis to express justifiable treachery for the good of Germanic peoples.

  3. Long knives - Wikipedia

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    George Rogers Clark spoke of himself and men as "Big Knives" or Virginians, in his speeches to the Indians in 1778 after the capture of Illinois. In the latter part of the American Revolutionary War, down to and during the War of 1812, the term was used to designate "Americans".

  4. George Rogers Clark - Wikipedia

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    George Rogers Clark was born on November 19, 1752, in Albemarle County, Virginia, near Charlottesville, the hometown of Thomas Jefferson. [5] [6] He was the second of ten children borne by John and Ann Rogers Clark, who were Anglicans of English and possibly Scottish descent.

  5. Fort Massac - Wikipedia

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    In 1778, during the American Revolutionary War, Colonel George Rogers Clark led his regiment of "Long Knives" into Illinois near the site of the fort at Massac Creek. [a] The fort was rebuilt in 1794, during the Northwest Indian War. [2] In the fall of 1803, the Lewis and Clark Expedition stopped at Fort Massac on its way west, recruiting two ...

  6. Simon Kenton - Wikipedia

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    Simon Kenton was born at the headwaters of Mill Run in the Bull Run Mountains on April 3, 1755, in Prince William County, Virginia, to Mark Kenton Sr., an immigrant from County Down, Ireland, and Mary (Miller) Kenton, who was of Scottish and Welsh ancestry.

  7. James Wilkinson - Wikipedia

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    Wilkinson claimed credit for undermining George Rogers Clark plan to become "Major General in the Armies of France and Commander-in-chief of the French Revolutionary Legion on the Mississippi River" and for preventing supplies from being shipped down the Ohio River. He submitted receipts of $8,640 to Spanish Governor Carondelet for his efforts ...

  8. Battle of Piqua - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Piqua, also known as the Battle of Peckowee, Battle of Pekowi, Battle of Peckuwe and the Battle of Pickaway, was a military engagement fought on August 8, 1780, at the Indian village of Piqua along the Mad River in western Ohio Country between the Kentucky County militia under General George Rogers Clark and Shawnee Indians under Chief Black Hoof.

  9. Joseph Bowman - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Lawrence Bowman (c. 1752 – 15 August 1779) was an American frontiersmen and military officer who fought during the American Revolutionary War.He was second-in-command during Colonel George Rogers Clark's 1778 military campaign to capture the Illinois Country, in which Clark and his men seized the key British-controlled towns of Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Vincennes.