Kaskaskia

George Rogers Clark National Historical Park: Interpretive Materials — National Park Service

NPS interpretive program covering Clark's entire western campaign from Kaskaskia through Vincennes, with documentary and archaeological evidence for the Illinois phase of the operation.

George Rogers Clark: I Glory in War — University of Oklahoma Press (Lowell Harrison)

Standard scholarly biography of Clark with the most thorough academic treatment of the Kaskaskia campaign, drawing on both American and British sources to reconstruct the 1778 Illinois operations.

George Rogers Clark's Memoir (Clark to Mason, 1791) — Library of Congress, George Rogers Clark Papers

Clark's own retrospective account of the Illinois campaign, dictated to John Mason and preserved as a manuscript memoir. The foundational primary narrative of the Kaskaskia capture on July 4, 1778.

Lincoln Trail Homestead State Memorial: George Rogers Clark in Illinois — Illinois Department of Natural Resources / National Park Service

NPS documentation for the George Rogers Clark National Historical Park (Vincennes, IN) and related Illinois sites. Covers the strategic context of the western campaign including the Kaskaskia capture.

Virginia State Papers: George Rogers Clark Correspondence, 1778-1779 — Library of Virginia

Official correspondence between Clark and Virginia Governor Patrick Henry authorizing and reporting on the Illinois campaign. Includes the original secret orders commissioning the expedition and Clark's dispatches reporting the fall of Kaskaskia and Vincennes.

British Intelligence and the Illinois Country: The Detroit-Kaskaskia Correspondence — Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

Scholarly article examining British intelligence reports from Kaskaskia before Clark's attack, documenting the small British garrison's lack of preparedness and the town's French civilian majority.

Colonial Ste. Genevieve: An Adventure on the Mississippi Frontier — Gerald Editions (Carl J. Ekberg)

Scholarly study of French Illinois including Kaskaskia's colonial period, population composition, and relationship with Native neighbors--essential context for understanding what Clark captured in 1778.

George Rogers Clark and Native American Diplomacy in the Illinois Country, 1778-1779 — American Indian Quarterly

Analysis of Clark's diplomatic negotiations with Illinois Confederacy tribes after capturing Kaskaskia, examining how his alliance-building among Native communities secured the western territory for Virginia.

George Rogers Clark: His Life and Public Services — Houghton Mifflin (Temple Bodley)

Earlier scholarly biography valuable for its use of the Clark family papers and Virginia state records. Covers the Illinois campaign in detail and Clark's negotiations with the French inhabitants of Kaskaskia.

Illinois Historical Survey: Kaskaskia Revolutionary Records — Illinois State Historical Library (now Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library)

State historical collections including French colonial and Revolutionary-era records from Kaskaskia, which was both a French settlement and the capital of the Illinois Country before American conquest.

Capture of Kaskaskia -- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation

General reference entry on the July 4, 1778 capture. Accurate overview; specific claims about garrison strength, Clark's route, and French civilian response should be verified against Harrison's biography and the Clark memoir.

Illinois History: Kaskaskia State Memorial — Illinois Department of Natural Resources

State park information for Kaskaskia Island, the current site of old Kaskaskia (now largely destroyed by Mississippi River flooding), including the Liberty Bell of the West and Revolutionary-era historical markers.