Third Mural in the Clark Memorial

This mural, "VINCENNES: THE BRITISH BARRIER TO THE WEST" depicts the attack on Fort Sackville (1779), continued in the early morning of February 24, after the beginning of firing the preceding evening. Clark's expert riflemen silenced fire from the fort and put the cannon out of action by shooting through the port holes wherever the defenders appeared.

Hamilton finally asked for a truce. Intimidated by Clark's vigorous statement of the situation, he agreed to an unconditional surrender. This was the culmination of Clark's campaign, in its conception, its execution, and its results comparable to Washington's Yorktown campaign two years later.

Nowhere in our history is there a greater exhibition of the power of a personal leadership to raise men to unsuspected heights of courage and endurance and to accomplish the impossible. In Clark's own words, inscribed in stone above the murals, "Great things have been effected by a few men well conducted."

Ezra Winter, Artist