The party originally consisted of twenty-nine men, including Clark's black slave York. Under the command of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the Corps of Discovery set forth from St. Together they collected a diverse military Corps of Discovery that would be able to undertake a two-year journey to the great ocean. Lewis always called Clark by the title of 'Captain' and never told the members of the Corps of Discovery to do otherwise. He received the rank of 2nd Lieutenant of the Corps of Artillerists. Army would not reinstate Clark with his former rank of Captain. President Jefferson approved Lewis' choice of Clark as the co-leader of the planned expedition to the Pacific. Lewis so respected Clark, that he made him a co-commanding captain of the Expedition, even though Clark was never recognized as such by the government. Lewis in turn solicited the help of William Clark, whose abilities as a draftsman and frontiersman were stronger than those of Lewis. Jefferson chose his personal secretary, Meriwether Lewis to lead the expedition. The objectives of the mission were the establishment of commercial ties with the indigenous people of the Far West and an increase in the knowledge of the region's geography. After the Louisiana Purchase Treaty was signed, Jefferson initiated an exploration of the newly purchased land and the territory beyond the 'great rock mountains' in the West. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson was successful in a moving an illustrious foreign diplomacy endeavor through the United States Senate: the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France. The collection features Thomas Jefferson papers & correspondences, transcriptions of the journals of Lewis and Clark and others on the Expedition, books, maps, newspapers and more.ДЄll computer recognizable text, transcriptions, reproduced printed text, and description sheets in the collection are searchable. Material includes text, historical volumes, and images of original documents and maps. After returning Sacagawea and her husband to North Dakota, the remainder of the Corps arrived back in Missouri in late September, more than two years after they started their expedition.Lewis & Clark - Corps of Discovery Historical Documents, Journals, Books, Maps & NewspapersДЎ1,335 pages of material related to the Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery Expedition of 1804 to 1806. COMING HOMEДЄfter a long winter waiting out the bad weather, the Corps was able to start making their way back east in March 1806. They wouldnвЂ™t see the Pacific Ocean until November 1805-over a year after they first left Missouri. Day after day, the exhausted, freezing team braved rough rivers and perilous peaks, getting by on very little food.

She helped Lewis and ClarkвЂ™s men obtain essential supplies and horses, identified edible plants and herbs, and prevented hostile relations with other tribes simply by being with the group-all while carrying her newborn baby on her back.ДЄfter meeting Sacagawea and her husband, the Corps traveled west from North Dakota, 15 to 20 miles a day on foot and by boat, toward the mountains. Sacagawea didnвЂ™t just serve as an interpreter during the trip, however. Spain still owned much of the southwestern part of whatвЂ™s now the United States, stretching from the area that would become Texas to present-day California. The United States only paid about three cents an acre for the land, which stretched from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the Canadian border in the north. The agreement-which gave the United States approximately 828,000 square miles of land-almost doubled the size of the nearly 30-year-old nation. In 1803, Jefferson made whatвЂ™s known as one of the greatest real estate deals in history: the Louisiana Purchase.ДЄfter negotiations, France agreed to sell the entire city of New Orleans, which included the port, to the United States for $10 million they threw in the rest of the territory they owned for an additional $5 million. Its prime location made it a key spot for trade. President Jefferson wanted to acquire the Port of New Orleans, in what is now the state of Louisiana, from the French. France controlled much of the land to the west of this waterway. When Thomas Jefferson became the third president of the United States in 1801, the country basically stopped at the Mississippi River.

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