In Honor of Those Who Served at Blue Licks Multi-Cache
In Honor of Those Who Served at Blue Licks
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On January 25, 1927 Blue Licks State Park became Kentucky’s fifth state park. Judge Samuel Wilson of Fayette County, chairman of the Blue Licks Battlefield Monument Commission, presented a deed for thirty-two acres to the Kentucky State Park Commission on behalf of local citizens who had donated the land. Located north of the Lower Blue Licks Crossing in present day Robertson County, the site of the Battle of Blue Licks enshrines the memory of the men who died in one of the worst military defeats of the American Revolution.
The Battle of Blue Licks has the combined drama of frontier warfare and the Revolutionary War. Nearly seventy Kentuckians died in what some historians have called the “Last Battle of the American Revolution.” While that claim is debatable, the struggle at Blue Licks embodies the conflict between the American Indian, Kentucky settlers, and the British Crown.
In 1928 the Kentucky General Assembly appropriated money for the erection of a granite monument inscribed with the names of those who died during the battle. To honor those who who fought and died in the Battle of Blue Licks we dedicate this cache to them.
To claim credit for this cache and get the coordinates to the next step of the cache, you will need to answer the following questions from the monument and plug them into the coordinates for the last step of the cache.
N 38 B A. C B B
W 083 F D. E D C
A = Number of Native American tribes listed on the base of the monument.
B = Number of privates killed whose last name begins with the letter "C".
C = The month and day of the battle minus the month and day of the dedication of the monument.
D = The second number + the fourth number in the year of the battle.
E = The number of letters in the eighteenth word in the quote of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky on the monument.
F = number of steps leading up to the monument minus the number of native tribes listed on the monument.
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Gur unaqjevgvat vf ba gur jnyyf....