Vincennes, Indiana This article is about the United States town/city Vincennes.
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Vincennes, Indiana Vincennes' most recognizable landmark, The George Rogers Clark National Historical Park Rotunda Vincennes' most recognizable landmark, Flag of Vincennes, Indiana Township Vincennes Named for Francois-Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes Vincennes is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Knox County, Indiana, United States. It is positioned on the lower Wabash River in the southwestern part of the state, nearly halfway between Evansville and Terre Haute.
Founded in 1732 by French fur traders, prominently, Francois-Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes for whom the Fort was named, Vincennes is the earliest continually inhabited European settlement in Indiana and one of the earliest settlements west of the Appalachians.
1.5 Flag of Vincennes, Indiana The vicinity of Vincennes was inhabited for thousands of years by different cultures of indigenous citizens s. During the Late Woodland period, some of these citizens s used small-town loess hills as burial sites; some of the more prominent examples are the Sugar Loaf Mound and the Pyramid Mound.:668 In historic times, prominent small-town native groups were the Shawnee, Wabash, and the Miami tribe.
The first European pioneer were French, when Vincennes was established as part of the French colony of New France.
Several years later, France lost the French and Indian War (part of the Seven Years' War), and as result ceded territory east of the Mississippi River, including Vincennes, to the victorious British.
Next it became part of Knox County in the Northwest Territory, and it was later encompassed in the Indiana Territory.
Vincennes served as capital of the Indiana Territory from 1800 until 1813, when the government was moved to Corydon.
Map of Vincennes from 1876 atlas The exact locale of Juchereau's trading post is not known, but because the Buffalo Trace crosses the Wabash at Vincennes, many believe it was here.
The earliest European town in Indiana, Vincennes was officially established in 1732 as a second French fur trading post in this area.
The Compagnie des Indes commissioned a Canadian officer, Francois-Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes, to build a post along the Wabash River to discourage small-town nations from trading with the British. de Vincennes established the new trading post near the meeting points of the Wabash and White rivers, and the overland Buffalo Trace. De Vincennes, who had lived with his father among the Miami tribe, persuaded the Piankeshaw to establish a village at his trading post.
He also encouraged Canadien pioneer to move there, and started his own family to increase the village population. Because the Wabash post was so remote, however, Vincennes had a difficult time getting trade supplies from Louisiana for the native nations, who were also being courted by British traders.
The boundary between the French colonies of Louisiana and Canada, although inexact in the first years of the settlement, was decreed in 1745 to run between Fort Ouiatenon (below the site of modern-day Lafayette, Indiana) and Vincennes. In 1736, amid the French war with the Chickasaw nation, de Vincennes was captured and burned at the stake near the present-day town of Fulton, Mississippi. His settlement on the Wabash was retitled Poste Vincennes in his honor.
On February 10, 1763, when New France was ceded to the British Empire at the conclusion of the French and Indian War, Vincennes fell under the dominion of Great Britain.
John Ramsey came to Vincennes in 1766.
Vincennes was far from centers of colonial power.
In 1770 and 1772 General Thomas Gage, the commander in chief of Britain's North American forces, received warnings that the inhabitants of Vincennes were not remaining loyal, and were inciting native tribes along the river trade routes against the British.
The British Colonial Secretary, the Earl of Hillsborough, ordered the inhabitants to be removed from Vincennes.
The copy was resolved by Hillsborough's successor, Lord Dartmouth, who insisted to Gage that the inhabitants were not lawless vagabonds, but English subjects whose rights were protected by the King. In 1778, inhabitants at Poste Vincennes received word of the French alliance with the American Second Continental Congress from Father Pierre Gibault and Dr.
Main article: Siege of Fort Vincennes Clark's march against Vincennes, athwart the Wabash River through wilderness and flood, unknown artist, from the National Archives and Records Administration After Kaskaskia was captured by Clark, Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton sent British soldiers and reinforcements from Detroit to Fort Vincennes and helped to rebuild the fort.
Italian trader Francis Vigo, who was captured once by the British at Vincennes, found Clark and warned him of the British at the fort.
Clark rounded up enough men to outnumber the British and prepared a brilliant surprise attack on Fort Vincennes in the heart of winter, a horrible time when no armies were expected to be able to attack due to illness, lack of food, and the flood waters that were high amid this time.
Hamilton thought Poste Vincennes as "a refuge for debtors and Vagabonds from Canada." George Rogers Clark recaptured Fort Sackville in the Battle of Vincennes without losing a single soldier.
American Revolutionary War Historic Memorial Plaque in Vincennes, Indiana Although the Americans would remain in control of Vincennes, it took years to establish peace.
In 1786, Captain John Hardin led a mounted Kentucky militia athwart the Ohio River and finished a friendly Piankeshaw town near Vincennes.
Finally, on 15 July 1786, the Wabash landed in forty-seven war canoes at Vincennes to drive the Americans back to Kentucky. The Indians warned the Canadians in advance of their attack and assured them that they would not be harmed, but the Canadians warned the Americans.
General Clark gathered a force of 1,000 militia and departed Clarksville 9 September 1786, along the Buffalo Trace. The militia spent ten days in Vincennes before marching north along the Wabash, but men deserted by the hundreds.
Clark was soon forced to return to Vincennes without any action taken.
Clark left 150 men to help defend Vincennes, but this force soon turned into a lawless mob, and the people of Vincennes petitioned Congress for help. Secretary of War Henry Knox sent Colonel Josiah Harmar and the First American Regiment to restore order.
The Kentucky militia fled Vincennes at the approach of U.S.
Colonel Harmar left 100 regulars under Major Jean Francois Hamtramck and directed them to build a fort, Fort Knox. Vincennes remained an isolated town, difficult to supply due to its position deep inside Indian territory.
Secure transport to and from Vincennes meant travelling with a large, armed party, whether over territory or via the Wabash River.
On 30 September 1790, Major Hamtramck led 350 men from Vincennes as far north as the Vermillion River, to engage some of the Indian villages which had been at war with Vincennes.
Faced with desertions from Kentucky militia, Hamtramck returned to Vincennes.
The expedition had done no serious harm to the enemies of Vincennes, but it distracted some of the Wabash villages while Josiah Harmar, now a General, led a much larger expedition up through Ohio nation towards Kekionga.
Vincennes was not secure until the conclusion of the Northwest Indian War in 1795.
Vincennes was no longer considered a trading outpost, but a grow city. Elihu Stout presented the first journal in the Indiana Territory in 1804 at Vincennes.
Vincennes served as the first capital of Indiana Territory until it was moved to Corydon on May 1, 1813.
In men, women, and children, to 500, passed through this place [Vincennes] ...
Flag of Vincennes, Indiana Flag of Vincennes, This flag for the town/city of Vincennes, Indiana, albeit unofficial, is used around the city.
Similar in appearance to the flag of Indianapolis, Vincennes' flag is more squared in appearance and has a diamond center clean water a circle.
It represents the layout of Vincennes.
Vincennes is positioned on the banks of the Wabash River at the edge of Knox County; this is also the edge of the state of Indiana, and Illinois is athwart the river to the west.
According to the 2010 census, Vincennes has a total region of 7.478 square miles (19.37 km2), of which 7.41 square miles (19.19 km2) (or 99.09%) is territory and 0.068 square miles (0.18 km2) (or 0.91%) is water. Vincennes has a humid continental climate with hot summers and cold winters with heavy rainfall at times throughout much of the year.
Vincennes Rivet High School (6 12) Vincennes University was established in 1801 as Jefferson Academy.
Controversy concerning time in Indiana has caused a change in the time zone of Vincennes on three different occasions since the Standard Time Act of 1918.
The Revolutionary War battle at Vincennes was featured in the 1901 novel Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson. Four ships have also been titled USS Vincennes with respect to this battle; as well as for the city.
USS Vincennes (1826) was an 18-gun sloop-of-war commissioned in 1826 and sold in 1867.
And the USS Vincennes (CG-49) was a guided missile cruiser commissioned in 1985 which was decommissioned and scrapped in 2005.
William Henry Harrison (1773-1841), Indiana Territorial Governor and 9th President of the United States Hinde, businessman and riverboat captain; briefly lived in Vincennes Ollie Pickering (1870-1952), first batter in MLB American League history; lived and died in Vincennes George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, the memorial and park assembled for the war hero George Rogers Clark.
Francis Xavier Cathedral and Library, the earliest Catholic church in the state of Indiana and Indiana's earliest library.
Grand Rapids Dam was once a dam on the Wabash River near present-day Vincennes; its remains are still visible.
Fort Knox II: Operated by the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites Corp, Fort Knox was the jumping off point for the Tippecanoe Campaign in 1811.
Fort Sackville, one of the forts of Vincennes.
Navy has titled four ships with respect to Vincennes.
The Servant of God, Bishop Simon Brute de Remur, first Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Vincennes.
Is the major site owned by the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites Corp in Vincennes.
Francis Xavier Cathedral and Library, Grouseland, Fort Knox II, and Indiana Territorial Capitol, Gregg Park, Hack and Simon Office Building, Kimmell Park, Old State Bank, Pyramid Mound, Vincennes Fortnightly Club, and the Vincennes Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. WVUT PBS (22) 22.1 / 22.2 / 22.3 Vincennes University Hometown News (HTN 21) Independent Media Channel 21 in Vincennes 91.1 FM WVUB "Blazer 91-1" Vincennes University First Bishop of Vincennes, Simon Brute.
First college Vincennes University, established as Jefferson Academy in 1801.
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58: One resident of Vincennes was heard to pray "Lord, please send the Kentuckians home and bring back the Indians." Miller, Indiana Newspaper Bibliography (Indiana Historical Society, 1982), 210 13.
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Alice of Old Vincennes Vincennes: Portal to the West.
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