skirmishes with the Indians;
    matures his plans for the Illinois campaign;
    goes to Virginia to raise troops;
    incidents of travel;
    lays his plans before Patrick Henry;
    authorized to raise troops;
    organizes the expedition;
    difficulty in raising men;
    starts down the Ohio;
    lands at the mouth of the Kentucky;
    reaches the Falls of the Ohio;
    joined by Kenton and the Kentuckians;
    meets a party of hunters;
    the march to Kaskaskia;
    surprises the town;
    a dramatic picture;
    his diplomacy;
    his winning stroke;
    sends troops to Cahokia;
    his difficulties;
    prepares for defence;
    establishes friendly relations with the Spanish authorities;
    dealings with the Indians;
    apprehensive of treachery;
    puts the Indians in irons;
    his seeming carelessness;
    offers peace or war to the Indians;
    makes peace with the Indians;
    his influence over them;
    prepares to resist Hamilton;
    narrow escape from the Indians;
    receives news of Vincennes;
    determines to strike the first blow;
    equips the first gunboat on the Western waters;
    marches against Vincennes;
    reaches the drowned lands of the Wabash;
    hardships and sufferings of his troops;
    encourages his troops;
    difficulties of approach to Vincennes;
    crosses the Horse Shoe Plain;
    exhaustion of the troops;
    surprises Vincennes;
    attacks the fort;
    summons the fort to surrender;
    destroys a scouting party;
    surrender of the fort;
    reproaches Hamilton;
    importance of the result of the expedition;
    sends Helm to intercept a convoy;
    disposes of his prisoners;
    receives reinforcements;
    pacifies the country;
    builds a fort on the Mississippi;
    moves to the Falls of the Ohio;
    made a brigadier-general;
    greatness of his deeds;
    hears of Bird’s inroads;
    his campaign against Piqua;
    musters his troops at the mouth of the Licking;
    starts up the Ohio;
    burns Chillicothe;
    surprises the Indians at Piqua;
    disperses the Indians;
    destroys the town;
    disbands his army;
    effects of the victory;
    his plan to attack Detroit;
    why his efforts were baffled;
    commandant of State troops;
    roused by the battle of the Blue Licks;
    his counter-stroke;
    destroys the Miami towns;
    undertakes to supply the settlements with meat;
  Clay MSS., II, Appendix;
  Cleavland, Col.  Benjamin, commands North Carolina militia, II;
    commands left wing at King’s Mountain;
  Clinch River, settlers of, at war with Shawnees, I;
    a feeder of the Tennessee River;
  Conolly, Capt.  John, his hostilities against Pennsylvania, I;