[Footnote 1: See map in paragraph 187.]
[Footnote 2: Detroit (De-troit'): for these forts see map in this
paragraph.]
[Footnote 3: Vincennes (Vin-senz').]
[Footnote 4: Kaskaskia (Kas-kas'ki-a).]
162. George Rogers Clark gets help from Virginia and starts to attack
Fort Kaskaskia.--Daniel Boone had a friend in Virginia named George
Rogers Clark,[5] who believed that he could take the British forts
in the west and drive out the British from all that part of the country.
Virginia then owned most of the Wilderness. For this reason Clark
went to Patrick Henry, governor of Virginia, and asked for help. The
governor liked the plan, and let Clark have money to hire men to go
with him and try to take Fort Kaskaskia to begin with.
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