Meriweather Lewis and William Clark led the expedition that explored the Louisiana Territory for the US government.
Edward Eyre was a Brit who explored the Australian continent. He moved to Sydney as a teenager, and explored South Australia in 1839.
French explorers who led the first French expedition down the Mississippi River.
It didn't. The war was long over before expansion west of the original 13 colonies began and the US did not reach the Pacific ocean until well AFTER the Louisiana Purchase (which did not include Oregon and Washington even though Lewis and Clark explored all the way to the Pacific). The first actual US territory on the Pacific was California.
Pierre-Joseph Celeron de Bienville (1693-1759) explored Ohio in 1749. Christopher Gist explored Ohio for the British the next year and wrote about his visit.
The Spanish.
Lewis and Clark
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.
They explored the Louisiana Territory
Louis and Clarke
They explored the Louisiana Territory.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition explored the Louisiana Purchase territory.
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.
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 explored the Louisiana Purchase territory and the Pacific Northwest, while the Pike expedition explored areas in the Louisiana Purchase, including present-day Colorado and New Mexico. Lewis and Clark focused on the Missouri River and the Columbia River, while Pike's expedition concentrated on the southwestern portion of the Louisiana Purchase.
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.
Lewis and Clark explored the Louisiana territory. Charles Slidell later did additional exploration in this vicinity
An expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark