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Short Biography of
Meriwether Lewis
Date of Birth: Born on August 18, 1774
Place of Birth : Ivy, Albemarle County,
Virginia
Parents: Father - Lt. William Lewis
Mother:
Lucy Meriwether
Stepfather: Captain John Marks
Marital Status: Unmarried
Died: October 11, 1809 aged 35
Short Biography of William
Clark
Date of Birth: Born on August 1, 1770
Place of Birth : Virginia
Parents: Father - John Clark
Mother:
Ann Rogers Clark
Marital Status: Married Julia Hancock and second
wife was Harriet Kennerly Radford
Died: September 1, 1838
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1770 |
August 1, 1770 - William Clark
was born in Virginia |
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1774 |
August 18, 1774 - Meriwether
Lewis was born in Virginia |
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1794 |
Lewis served in the army and
was neighbors with Thomas Jefferson |
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1801 |
March 6, 1801 - Lewis was
asked by President Thomas Jefferson to be his
secretary |
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1803 |
April 1803 - Lewis was chosen
by President Jefferson as commander of an
expedition, referred to as the Corps of Discovery,
to explore new land purchased from the French
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1803 |
Lewis asks William Clark, a
military leader and explorer, to join him in the
expedition and share the command, which Clark
accepts
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1803 |
July 4, 1803 - Public
announcement of the Louisiana Purchase |
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1803 |
July / August - Preparations
made for the expedition along with recruitment
consisting of about 40 men. |
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1803 |
Lewis and Clark establish Camp
Wood, the winter camp for their expedition force, on
the Wood River in Illinois.
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1803 |
Lewis and Clark ensure that a
keelboat is fully prepared for the journey. A
keelboat is a river boat with a shallow draught and
a keel. Keelboats were moved by rowing, punting or
towing. Two smaller boats were also prepared
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1804 |
May 14, 1804 - The Expedition
of the new land acquired via the
Louisiana Purchase begins at the Missouri River. The
land stretched from the Mississippi River all the
way to the Pacific Ocean
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1804 |
July 4, 1804 - The expedition
marks first 4th of July west of the Mississippi by
firing the keelboat's cannon, and naming
Independence Creek
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1804 |
August 3, 1804 - Lewis and
Clark present gifts to representatives of the Oto
and Missouri Indians |
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1804 |
August 30, 1804 - Lewis and
Clark meet with the friendly Yankton Sioux |
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1804 |
September 25, 1804 - Lewis and
Clark meet the Teton Sioux and Chief Black Buffalo
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1804 |
October 24, 1804 - Lewis and
Clark discover earthlodge villages of the Mandan and
Hidatsas Indians. They construct Fort Mandan across
the river from the main village
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1804 |
November 4, 1804 - Charbonneau
& Sacagawea: A French Canadian fur trapper called
Toussaint Charbonneau and his Shoshone wife,
Sacagawea, are hired as interpreters. Only the
Lacota tribe were hostile towards the expedition
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1804 |
December 24, 1804 - Fort
Mandan is completed for use as a winter camp |
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1805 |
April 7, 1805 - Lewis and
Clark send the keelboat and 12 men back with maps,
reports, Indian artefacts and other scientific
specimens for President Jefferson
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1805 |
April 7, 1805 -The remaining
explorers head west and continue up the river in
canoes. They are accompanied by Sacagawea,
Charbonneau and their newborn baby, Jean-Baptiste
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1805 |
June 13, 1805 - Scouting ahead
of the rest of the expedition, Lewis comes across
the Great Falls of the Missouri and four more
waterfalls - the expedition have to carry boats and
supplies overland for 18 milesto get past them
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1805 |
July, 1805 - The expedition
reaches the 3 forks of the Missouri River which they
name the Gallatin, the Madison, and the Jefferson.
The expedition continues southwest, up the Jefferson
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1805 |
August 8, 1805 - Sacagawea
recognizes Beaverhead Rock marking the headwaters of
the Missouri, and the home of the Shoshone Indians.
Lewis scouts ahead of the expedition
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1805 |
August 12, 1805 - The shipment
from fort Mandan is delivered to President Jefferson |
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1805 |
August 17, 1805 - The
expedition meet the Shoshone chief Cameahwait, who
is Sacagawea's brother |
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1805 |
August 17, 1805 - Lewis
and Clark name the site Camp Fortunate |
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1805 |
August - October 1805 - Lewis
and Clark and the expedition travel across the harsh
mountains until they reach the Columbia River
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1805 |
November 7, 1805 - William
Clark writes his most famous journal entry: "Ocean
in view! O! the joy." |
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1805 |
November 1805 - The Clark and
Lewis expedition encounter bad storms that halt
their progress for nearly 3 weeks. |
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1805 |
January 4, 1806 - - President
Jefferson receives a delegation of Missouri, Oto,
Arikara, and Yankton Sioux chiefs who had met with
Lewis and Clark more than a year earlier
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1806 |
March 23, 1806 - The Lewis and
Clark expedition begin the journey home |
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1806 |
June, 1806 - Lewis and Clark
stay with the Nez Perce Indians in the Columbia
River Plateau waiting for the snows to melt
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1806 |
July 3, 1806 - The Lewis and
Clark expedition splits up to explore more of the
territory. Lewis takes the shortcut to the Great
Falls, and the Maris River whilst Clark follows the
the Yellowstone River
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1806 |
July 25, 1806 - Near
present-day Billings in Montana William Clark
inscribes his name and the date on the rock face of
Pompy's Tower - the inscription reads, "Wm. Clark
July 25th 1806," which can still be seen today
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1806 |
August 12, 1806 - the Lewis
and Clark expeditions are reunited near the mouth of
the Yellowstone River
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1806 |
August 11 – Lewis is
accidentally shot by a member of his own party |
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1806 |
August 14, 1806 -
Charbonneau, Sacagawea, and Jean Baptist leave the
Lewis and Clark expedition and make their home at
the Mandan village
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1806 |
September 23, 1806 - The Lewis
and Clark expedition reach St. Louis, ending their
journey after two years, four months, and ten days
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1806 |
Lewis and Clark were treated
like National heroes |
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1807 |
1807, Jefferson appoints Lewis
as governor of the Louisiana Territory and he
settled in St. Louis |
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1808 |
William Clark married Julia
Hancock on January 5, 1808, at Fincastle, Virginia,
and they had five children |
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1809 |
Meriwether Lewis Died on
October 11, 1809 aged 35 - his death is a mystery
some say suicide, others say it was murder |
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1808 |
William Clark married Julia
Hancock on January 5, 1808, at Fincastle, Virginia,
and they had five children After Julia's death in
1820, William Clark married her first cousin,
Harriet Kennerly Radford. They had another three
children |
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1820 |
1820 - After Julia's death
William Clark married his first wife's first cousin,
Harriet Kennerly Radford. They had three children |
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1808 |
September 1, 1838 - William
Clark died in St Louis. He was buried in the
Bellefontaine Cemetery |
