March 23,1806
The Corps of Discovery, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, left St. Louis on May 14, 1804, on their expedition to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase territory.
Bad weather alone was enough trouble, sometimes it would be too foggy for the boats to travel or too cold to leave camp. Also, rain would cause the instruments to rust so Lewis had to constantly check them and oil them down again. Along the river were mass amounts of mosquitoes which Lewis said "gathered around my face so much so I could not see." Choppy waters would make boat travel difficult and while they made it, there was the constant fear of drowning or the boat capsizing. Hostile natives, disease (men drank from the rivers, and there was a shortage of fruit and vegetables), wild animals, mutiny from members of the expedition, and always the constant danger of falling into one of the rivers, breaking a leg, etc. Bad water would cause the men to suffer from terrible boils on their skin; Lewis would suffer from a bad case of the flu one winter and Clark suffered from a "rheumatism of the neck" which caused him pain for several days. For Clark, Lewis applied a "hot stone wrapped in flannel" to help ease his pain. At one point Lewis was accidentally shot in the left thigh by a near-blind member of the expedition, but managed to make it back safely. During the winter, the men suffered from frostbite, luckily leading to no necessary amputations, but the cold temperatures prevented them from leaving their forts to hunt. Also, several times the men had to keep constant guard on their supplies and natives would follow them and try to steal their horses.
Home would properly fit the position for an antonym of expedition. The reason why is alomost like the phrase "What goes up, must come down" because if you don't ever leave for an expedition then where would you be?
He left home because his fortune was left to his older brother and he did not like it so he left home.
Robert de La Salle, a French explorer, disappeared in 1687 during an expedition in early April, never to be seen again. It is believed that he was killed by his own men in present-day Texas, likely due to a combination of poor leadership, desertion, and conflict within the group.
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The main exploratory trip up the Missouri began near St. Louis. Puristswill tell you that the expedition began when Lewis left Pittsburgh with supplies .
In the Lewis and Clark journals it does not state specifically at what time Lewis and Clark left St. Louis. However, most of the time Lewis preferred to leave in the early morning to travel as far as possible. But it had rained during the first half of the day, so it can be supposed that Lewis and Clark left perhaps around 10:00 am rather than their usual 7:00 or 8:00 am.
In 1804 Toussaint Charbonneau was interviewed to interpret Hidatsa for the Lewis and Clark expedition, but Lewis and Clark (esp. Clark) were not overly impressed with him. However, Sacagawea his wife spoke Shoshone and Hidatsa, so they hired Charbonneau on November 4, and he and Sacagawea moved into Fort Mandan a week later. Sacagawea was 16 or 17 at this time. She was with the Corps of Discovery until they arrived back in St. Louis on September 23, 1806.
The party of nearly 30 --including Lewis and Clark, three sergeants, 22 enlisted men, volunteers, interpreters, and Clark's slave -- departed St. Louis in May 1804 heading up the Missouri River.
First of all, it was Meriwhether Lewis who was assigned to explore the West. Clark would offer to join up with the Discovery Corps weeks after Meriwether Lewis started his journey in Pittsburgh (yes, that's right, Pittsburgh, not St. Louis. Check out the related link to the Lewis and Clark Journals for that TRUE fact) And Lewis began his journey in 1803.
Sacagawea, a Shoshone woman who played a crucial role as an interpreter and guide on the Lewis and Clark expedition, did not leave behind any written quotes or speeches. Therefore, it is inaccurate to attribute any specific number of quotes to her. However, her contributions to the expedition and her interactions with the members have been documented by Lewis and Clark in their journals.
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they left the territory on the edge to go and find another terrritory and map out the land to that territory to continue to move westward i <3 you -summer shines-
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