think There would have Been no risk in it as The Indians was So Completely Cut up on The Day of The Battle Such a move would have Been an honor and Credit to that Campaign I can Never agree That Harmars Campaing was a Defeated one." FOOTNOTES: [1] For a sketch of the position of this campaign in the Revolution, and its leading details see _Historic Highways of America_, vol. vi, pp. 161-166. [2] Our principal source of information concerning the Kaskaskia campaign is George Rogers Clark's _Memoir_, written probably in 1791, the original of which is preserved in the Draper Manuscripts in the library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Extracts of such portions as refer to the march to Kaskaskia will be found in Appendix A. [3] Page's _History of Massac County_, p. 35. [4] _Draper MSS._, xxi J, fols. 40, 44. [5] _Id._, fol. 51. [6] _Id._, fol. 27. [7] _Id._, fol. 76. [8] _Id._, fol. 83; xxii, fol. 6. [9] _Id._, xxii, fol. 5. [10] _Id._, xxi, fol. 42; cf. p. 65. [11] _Id._, xxi, fols. 40, 42. Probably the route of the later St. Louis-Shawneetown trace; see p. 34. [12] _Id._, xxii, fols. 11, 35. [13] _Id._, xxii, fol. 35. [14] _Id._, xxi, fols. 16, 27, 29, 51, 52; and xxii, fols. 30, 35. [15] _Id._, xxii, fols. 30, 37. Cox's Creek was crossed twice, the east fork in section 7, township 7, range 4, and the west fork in section 12, township 7, range 5. [16] _Id._, xxi, fols. 80, 81; xxii, fol. 37. [17] _Id._, xxii, fol. 37. [18] Clark approached Kaskaskia by the route and the ford over the Kaskaskia River which he pursued on the Vincennes campaign in the February following. (English's _Conquest of the Northwest_, vol. i, p. 288.) [19] _Historic Highways of America_, vol. vii, p. 168. [20] A galley-batteau, armed with two four-pounders and four swivels, and carrying forty-six men, under the command of Captain John Rogers, left Kaskaskia February 4, for Vincennes by the river route. It was named "The Willing." [21] Probably at "a small branch about three miles from Kaskaskia" mentioned by Clark in his letter to Mason (English's _Conquest of the Northwest_, vol. i, p. 430). [22] The map of Clark's route from Kaskaskia to Vincennes in the standard work on his campaigns of 1778-79, English's _Conquest of the Northwest_ (vol. i, pp. 290-291), gives only the later Kaskaskia trace of the eighteenth century--the modern route which it is sure Clark did not pursue. [23] _Draper MSS._, xxv J, fol. 76. See map on page 21.