THGC Publishing is excited to partner with the St. Charles County Heritage Museum to present a new exhibit on the American Revolutionary War in the West, open now.
This exhibit features the largest collection of original artifacts related to this story that has been assembled to date in the U.S. Topics covered include:
Clark’s conquest of the Illinois Country • Spanish aid to the Americans up the Mississippi River • Galvez’s Mississippi River campaign • 1780 Attacks on St. Louis and Cahokia as part of a British grand plan to control the entire Mississippi River Valley • Colonial St. Louis, Cahokia and Ste. Genevieve • 1780 Chickasaw Attack on Clark’s Fort Jefferson • 1780 British Attacks on Ruddle’s Fort and Martin’s Station • 1781 Natchez Rebellion • Free and enslaved African and African-Americans in Spanish Louisiana and the Illinois Country • Biography of Fernando de Leyba • Analysis of the militia lists and defenders at St. Louis and Cahokia • 1783 Attack on the Spanish Arkansas Post • British Native American Policy in the West • Cavalry Units in the Western Theater • Impact of the Final Treaties and Louisiana Transfer Ceremonies • Historical remembrances of the Battle of St. Louis in Missouri and Spain
EXHIBIT SOUVENIRS:
Commemorative Medal on white ribbon with pin. Fort San Carlos on reverse. Available at the museum gift shop, or click the image to buy.
Cost: $15 plus tax and shipping.
Brief overview of the history covered in the American Revolutionary War in the West museum exhibit. With text by Stephen L. Kling, Jr., Morris S. Arnold, Kenneth C. Carstens, Benjamin Gall, Robert J. Mueller, and Kristine L. Sjostrom. Available at the museum gift shop, or click the image to buy.
Cost: $10 plus tax and shipping.
