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Vigo the Italian Hero in Clark's Campaign Remembered
The article profiles Francesco Vigo, an Italian key to George Rogers Clark’s Vincennes victory, detailing his spy mission, financial help, and later faded fame. It notes his birth in Mondovì, service in Spain and Louisiana, alliance with Don Fernando de Leyba, and pivotal loans that funded Clark’s expedition. Vigo died in 1856 after a life as a wealthy, then neglected, trading figure honored posthumously in Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vigo
Leptis Magna
Africa
Bruno Roselli
Stratford Company of
Boston
Vincennes
George Stogers Clark
Francesco Vigo
George Rogers Clark
Clark
Old Northwest
Rosell
Mondays
Italy
Spain
Havana
Cuba
New Orleans
Mississippi River
St. Louis
Don Fernando de Leyba
Upper
Louisiana
France
Roselli
Aittle
de Leyba
Mississippi Valley
Agen
Virginia
Oliver Pollock
Philadelphia
Detroit
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson
George Mason
William Henry Harrison
Warrison
Maximilian, Prince of
Francis Vigo
Indiana