History Plays for the Grammar Grades

<div class="pagenum"><!-- Page 20 --><SPAN name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</SPAN></div> <h2><SPAN name="GEORGE_ROGERS_CLARK" id="GEORGE_ROGERS_CLARK"></SPAN>GEORGE ROGERS CLARK</h2> <h3 class="h3left">INTRODUCTION:</h3> <p class="narr">George Rogers Clark was born in Virginia in 1752. Clark liked to roam the woods. He became a surveyor and an Indian fighter at the age of twenty-one. He was a great leader in Kentucky along with Boone and fought the Indians many times. The British officers aroused the Indians. They paid a certain sum for each scalp of an American. Clark decided to strike a blow at the British across the Ohio. He drilled his men at Corn Island at the falls of the Ohio, the beginning of Louisville. In June he shot the falls and after a long march they reached the old French town of Kaskaskia.</p> <p class="narr">The first Act will be a dance at Kaskaskia.</p> <h3>ACT I.</h3> <p class="stage1">(British and French dancing. Enter Clark and stands at door. Indian lying on floor springs to feet and gives terrible war whoop. The dancing stops. Women scream and men rush toward Clark).</p> <p class="speaker"><span class="smcap">Clark</span>: Go on with your dance but remember you dance under Virginia and not under Great Britain.</p> <p class="stage1">(British General goes up to Clark).</p> <p class="speaker"><span class="smcap">Clark</span>: I ask you to surrender in the name of Virginia.</p> <p class="speaker"><span class="smcap">British General</span>: I surrender. (Hands his sword to Clark).</p> <p class="stage1">(French talk in corner. Father Gibault and other men come up to talk with Clark).</p> <p class="speaker"><span class="smcap">Father Gibault</span>: We beg of you, Colonel Clark, to spare our lives and the lives of our families.</p> <p class="speaker"><span class="smcap">Clark</span>: Father, your lives are safe. America makes war on no church and will protect you all from insult. The King of France has made a treaty with the United States and is sending ships and soldiers to help us. All we want you to do is put up the American Flag.</p> <p class="speaker"><span class="smcap">Father Gibault</span>: We are glad to hear this news. It makes us all very happy indeed. I will go to Vincennes and tell the good news.</p> <p class="stagecent"> <i>End of Clark Act.</i></p> <hr class="major" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />