KASKASKIA, IL
\kaskˈaski͡ə], \kaskˈaskiə], \k_a_s_k_ˈa_s_k_iə]\
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a French settlement, settled in the latter part of the seventeenth century, garrisoned in 1778 by British soldiers. Colonel George Rogers Clark captured it with three companies of Kentucky recruits on the night of July 4, after a short struggle and with but little bloodshed.
By John Franklin Jameson
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