at the town church located about eighty feet from the fort. At this meeting the two discuss terms of a possible surrender. Clark asked for an "unconditional surrender" where all the British troops would become prisoners at discretion, and he also demanded Indian Partisians which meant that Clark had the right to kill all the Indians that assisted the British in any way. General Hamilton refuses these very harsh terms and returns to the fort to continue the battle, briefly. It was only a short time after the meeting had concluded that some of Clark's men captured a Warrior party of Indians that were returning to Vincennes, the group was hooting and hollering with their newly acquired scalps in their hands. Clark's men attacked the Indians killing several of them in the field and capturing six of them. The prisoners were then taken to George Rogers Clark, who decided to make examples out of them. Six of Clark's men each took one of the Indian's to the front of Fort Sackville, lining them up in front of the Garrison they gruesomely tomahawked them right in front of General Hamilton and all his troops. General Hamilton immediately met with Clark and gave him his unconditional surrender on February 25th, 1779. This was a very Historical conquest for America, as a result of George Rogers Clark's victory at Fort Sackville Virginia gained the territories of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota. It is also a historical belief that these gains made the acquisition of the Louisiana purchase possible for Clark's good friend Thomas Jefferson. Unfortunately for Clark this turned out to be the end of his military career, and in some ways the end of his life. Most of the Revolutionary War heros like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry were revered and remembered fondly in history, this is not the case for George Rogers Clark. Clark spent the remaineder of his life financially ruin...
