So glad that this presentation got posted . My family has been in Michigan since the mid 1760's . All the lands they acquired up to the war of 1812 was bought/traded for was from the native Americans. The purpose was for furs and lumber . Fur trade died out around 1860 , lumber around 1880 . My family had thousands of acres north of Detroit on the St. Clair River. Thankfully I have hundreds of letters and business documents starting around 1820, sadly due to fire early letters were lost . Family homestead built in 1863 still surviving in magnificent condition...During the war of 1812 and a few years after were crazy dangerous times in the area with Canada on opposite side of the river .
@@andylyon3867 English , Norwegian ,Irish Dutch .The English branch were Puritans that settled Hartford Conn. with Thomas Hooker . Not any of my Grandfathers married any natives or French women but i had a uncle who married a native . In the 1920s and 30s a lot of the prime river properties my family was forced to sell for the "betterment" of the community . City parks , water plants etc . My father still had quit a bit as i was growing up but just a few parcels are left now which the taxes are getting out of hand .My father always said my family owed so much to those brave men and women that came before us .
excellent unvarnished love it. I find history, like whiskey sometimes burns on the way down. How you deal with the results is up to the individual. Been to Ft Meigs many time Once with Dr E. Danzinger and met you. Seems to often the cultural proffesors only see the noble red man forgetting things like the burning of Crawford and what happened to The Erie. Such a good lecture, I will look for you again.
I❤ love intelligent lecturers. THIS is why people should go to college, Historians teach, I’ve learned if they can: 1) What happened? 2) How? 3) AND so what? An excellent approach.
“The old Northwest” … wonderfully interesting, My home state of Illinois was part of that. George Rogers Clark … how interesting. Thanks for the wonderful speech. In 1989 went down the river systems of Chicago, Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio Rivers and Kentucky Lakes with a sailboat, masts down. Then, onto Mobile. That is A LOT of river travel.
There's a reason for him appearing at that conference covered in gore was that he was dealing with people that dealt in gore and blood that gave no quarter themselves, and wouldn't be impressed with him at all if he'd done it any other way! As I recall, he had the Indians scared of him because his men were like ghosts. Great lecture! I enjoyed this immensely!
Great presentation! I loved learning about the intricate relationships between the different people of the area. A great book about George Rogers Clark is George Rogers Clark: I Glory in War by William Nester.
Interesting side note concerning the goings on of the World at the time, colonial privateer Joshua Barney captained a ship named Hyder Aly, after the leader of the kingdom of Mysore in India, who fought the British in the Anglo-Mysore war, Hyder Ali. He did win that war against the East India company.
One of Aaron Burr's sons later became a member of a Regiment of the East Indian Company that was later to become the 4th Kerala Rifles (Trivandrums Own) which only existed for a decade or so before being absorbed into another EIC military formation.
From the start in North America Europeans did not marry Indians in large numbers, unlike south America and that is way things ends so bad for the Indian population in the end as with out marriage killing them was much worse than S America. Still bad there too but the Indians are still around in huge numbers. Great talk, wonderful insight into the real George Rogers Clark.
Historians usually use the terminology that was used in official writing at the time. Would you for example refer to slaves taken from Africa as African Americans?
