Meriwether Lewis was first chosen to go on the Louisiana Purchase because he was President Jefferson's aide and Jefferson knew he could rely on him. Lewis would be promoted to Captain after he agreed to join. To prepare for the expedition, Lewis was sent to Philadelphia for intense training by physician Benjamin Rush, astronomer-surveyor Andrew Ellicott, botanist Benjamin Barton, anatomist Casper Wister, and mathematician Robert Patterson. For three months he was tutored in the spring of 1803.
The skills that Lewis learned would be passed on to Clark as they traveled. Prior to the expedition, Clark was in fact Lewis' superior officer and was very experienced in handling boats. Lewis would ask Clark to serve mainly as the expedition "doctor" and co-writer of the Journals.
Meriwether Lewis was first chosen to go on the Louisiana Purchase because he was President Jefferson's aide and Jefferson knew he could rely on him. Lewis would be promoted to Captain after he agreed to join. To prepare for the expedition, Lewis was sent to Philadelphia for intense training by physician Benjamin Rush, astronomer-surveyor Andrew Ellicott, botanist Benjamin Barton, anatomist Casper Wister, and mathematician Robert Patterson. For three months he was tutored in the spring of 1803.
The skills that Lewis learned would be passed on to Clark as they traveled. Prior to the expedition, Clark was in fact Lewis' superior officer and was very experienced in handling boats. Lewis would ask Clark to serve mainly as the expedition "doctor" and co-writer of the Journals.
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To explore the Louisiana Purchase for Thomas Jefferson!
The adventures of Lewis and Clark and, The Dunbar and Hunter Expetition
through the southern half of the Louisiana Purchase.
explorers who explore the Louisiana purchase for president Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson appointed Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana Purchase.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark together explored to the Louisiana Purchase for Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
President Jefferson asked Meriwether Lewis and William Clarke to explore the Louisiana purchase or the new territory The U.S. had just bought.
US President Thomas Jefferson brokered the purchase of the Louisiana territory from Napoleon. Jefferson chose his personal secretary, and neighbor Meriwether Lewis, to lead the exploration of the new US territory. When he needed a partner, however, to help his expedition, Lewis agreed to have William Clark to share the leadership of the exploration of the Louisiana Territory. Sharing the command of the mission, was at the time, a sign of humbleness and Lewis' intelligence to share the duties was a correct one. Therefore, history records that the Lewis and Clark expedition explored the Louisiana Purchase.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition : Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark .
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark organized the Corps of Discovery and explored the Louisiana Purchase that Thomas Jefferson bought from the french.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark organized the Corps of Discovery and explored the Louisiana Purchase that Thomas Jefferson bought from the french.