Siege of Fort Vincennes

Battle of Vincennes
Part of the American Revolutionary War
Fall of Fort Sackville, by Frederick Coffay Yohn
Date 23–25 February 1779 Location Vincennes, Indiana Result American victory
Belligerents
United States Piankeshaw Kickapoo	Great Britain Shawnee Odawa Lenape
Commanders and leaders
George Rogers Clark Joseph Bowman †	Henry Hamilton  Egushawa
Strength
172 militia 100 Indians[1]	79 regulars 145 militia 325 Indians
Casualties and losses
1 killed 5 wounded[2]	16 killed 5 wounded 79 captured[3]

The siege of Fort Vincennes, also known as the siege of Fort Sackville and the Battle of Vincennes, was a Revolutionary War frontier battle fought in present-day Vincennes, Indiana won by a militia led by American commander George Rogers Clark over a British garrison led by Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton. Roughly half of Clark's militia were Canadien volunteers sympathetic to the American cause. After a daring wintertime march, the small American force was able to force the British to surrender the fort and in a larger frame the Illinois territory.