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This date in Michigan History:   February 25, 1779
George Rogers Clark attacks British-held Vincennes (Indiana).

As a result of Clark's brilliant military activities, the British ceded to the United States a vast area of land west of the Appalachian Mountains. That territory now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and the eastern portion of Minnesota.

 
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