1752 - 1779
Joseph Bowman American
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Details
| First Name |
Joseph
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| Last Name |
Bowman
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1751
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| Birthplace |
Frederick County, Virginia
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| Died |
1779
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| Place of Death |
Fort Patrick Henry
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| Buried |
originally along the Wabash River, near Vincennes, Indiana, present-day St. Francis Xavier Cathedral Cemetery, near George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, Vincennes, Indiana
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
frontiersman, hunter, farmer, soldier, state militia officer
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Joseph Lawrence Bowman (c.– 15 August 1779) was an American frontiersmen and military officer who fought during the American Revolutionary War. He was second-in-command during Colonel George Rogers Clark's 1778 military expedition to capture the Illinois Country, in which Clark and his men seized the key British-controlled towns of Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Vincennes. Following the 1779 campaign and defeat of the British forces, Bowman was critically injured in an accidental gunpowder explosion and subsequently died of his wounds. He was the only American officer killed during the 1778-1779 Illinois campaign. Joseph Bowman kept a daily journal of his trek from Kaskaskia to Vincennes, which is one of the best primary source accounts of Clark's victorious campaign.
