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Contrary to popular imagination, the American Revolution was not confined to the eastern seaboard. The mid-Mississippi River Valley also witnessed the confrontation between the American Patriots, their allies, and the British Empire and its allies. This confrontation reached its climax in the spring of 1780 with the Battle of Fort San Carlos. Fought in what is today downtown St. Louis and the historic district of Cahokia, the battle was a turning point in the war in the Trans-Appalachain West and secured the Mississippi Riveras, the western border of the new United States.