FTP, identify this soldier, who refused to surrender his generalship in the French army, brother of a famous explorer.
A surveyor for the Ohio Company, he was commissioned a major in defense of Kentucky when the revolution broke out. After Patrick Henry endorsed his plan for conquering Illinois, he captured Kaskaskia and Vincennes, and his defenses of St. Louis and  Fort Nelson were key to American control of the Northwest after the war. FTP, identify this soldier, who refused to surrender his generalship in the French army, brother of a famous explorer.
A surveyor for the Ohio Company, he was commissioned a major in defense of Kentucky when the revolution broke out.
George Rogers Clark