Vincennes is a city in and the county chair of Knox County, Indiana, United States. It is located on the humiliate Wabash River in the southwestern part of the state, nearly halfway along with Evansville and Terre Haute. Founded in 1732 by French fur traders, notably François-Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes, for whom the Fort was named, Vincennes is the oldest at all times inhabited European deal in Indiana and one of the oldest settlements west of the Appalachians.

According to the 2010 census, its population was 18,423, a decrease of 1.5% from 18,701 in 2000. Vincennes is the principal city of the Vincennes, IN Micropolitan Statistical Area, which comprises whatever of Knox County and had an estimated 2017 population of 38,440.

The vicinity of Vincennes was inhabited for thousands of years by swap cultures of native peoples. During the Late Woodland period, some of these peoples used local loess hills as burial sites; some of the more prominent examples are the Sugar Loaf Mound and the Pyramid Mound. In historic times, prominent local Indian groups who drove these people out were the Shawnee, Wabash, and the Miami tribe.

The first European settlers were French, when Vincennes was founded as part of the French colony of New France. Later on, it would be transferred to the colony of Louisiana. Several years later, France directionless the French and Indian War (part of the Seven Years’ War), and as repercussion ceded territory east of the Mississippi River, including Vincennes, to the victorious British.