Kaskaskia

[ kuhs-kas-kee-uh ]

noun

1. a river in E central Illinois, flowing SW to the Mississippi River. 320 miles (515 km) long.

Example Sentences

Six days brought the invaders to the Kaskaskia River, three miles above the principal settlement.

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Had the British forces immediately pushed on, this same scene might have been repeated at Kaskaskia and Cahokia.

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The old parish registers of Kaskaskia are full of records of these mixed marriages.

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Sixty miles below St. Louis, the Kaskaskia joins it, after a devious course of 400 miles.

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The prairies are rather level, and in places inclined to be wet; the timber, especially along the Kaskaskia, heavy.

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