Francis Vigo
Italian-born soldier in American Revolutionary War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Francis Vigo born Giuseppe Maria Francesco Vigo (December 13, 1747 – March 22, 1836) was an Italian-American who aided the American colonial forces during the Revolutionary War and helped found a public university in Vincennes, Indiana.
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Birth name | Giuseppe Maria Francesco Vigo |
Born | December 13, 1747 Mondovì, Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia, present-day Mondovì, Piedmont, Italy |
Died | March 22, 1836 (aged 88–89) Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana |
Buried | Greenlawn Cemetery, Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana |
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Born in Mondovì, Italy, he served with the Spanish Army in New Orleans. In 1772 he established a fur trading business in St. Louis. In 1783, Vigo moved to Vincennes and operated a fur trading business there.