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Site of House Occupied as Headquarters

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Before capturing Fort Sackville from the British on February 25, 1779, Colonel George Rogers Clark used a private house facing the fort as his headquarters. Later, after the surrender, Colonel Henry Hamilton, the British commander of the garrison, was housed there before his removal to Williamsburg, Virginia.
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