The Floyd River, a tributary of the Missouri at which the expedition camped after his death, is named after Charles Floyd. His burial site was marked with a cedar post on which was inscribed his name and day of death. Charles Floyd was buried at a hill by the river now named as Floyd’s Bluff after him. He remained the only member to die during the entire expedition. Sergeant Charles Floyd, one of the members of the Corps of Discovery, suffered from acute appendicitis and died on August 20, 1804. It followed the Missouri River westward and soon, it passed La Charrette, the last Euro-American settlement on the river. The Lewis and Clark Expedition started on as the Corps of Discovery departed from Camp Dubois. #4 The Floyd River is named after a member of the expedition In 2001, President Bill Clinton posthumously granted York the rank of honorary sergeant in the United States Army.
Renowned 20th century American sculptor Ed Hamilton created a statue of York to commemorate his participation in the Lewis and Clark expedition. York’s ultimate fate is not known with certainty but there is speculation that he was freed by Clark. York enjoyed certain amount of freedom during the expedition and, hence, after the expedition, Clark had difficulty compelling York to resume his former status. He was a valuable member of the expedition for his skills as a hunter.
Though not an official member, York made the entire journey from St. The Corps of Discovery included Clark’s personal slave named York. #3 It included an African American slave named York William Clark (left) and Meriwether Lewis (right) – Leaders of the Corps of Discovery Expedition He also wanted men who were brave, unmarried and healthy. He wanted the enlisted men to be excellent hunters and possess skills that would ensure their survival in the wilderness. Lewis entrusted the job of recruitment to Clark. Though Clark officially only held the rank of Second Lieutenant at the time, Lewis concealed this from the members of the expedition and always referred to Clark as “Captain”. Lewis, in turn, selected a former Army comrade, 32-year-old Second Lieutenant William Clark, to be co-leader of the Corps of Discovery. Jefferson selected 28-year-old Army captain, Meriwether Lewis, to lead the expedition.
Due to this, the expedition is also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery, a select group of volunteer soldiers who formed the nucleus of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. #2 The expedition gets its name from its leaders Meriwether Lewis and William Clark Map depicting the region added after the Louisiana Purchase Other objectives included studying the area’s plants, animal life and geography and establishing trade relations with local American Indian tribes. Apart from this, the major reason for the expedition was to find a water route to the Pacific through the north-west, which in turn would increase trade opportunities. President Jefferson commissioned the Lewis and Clark Expedition shortly after the Louisiana Purchase to map the newly acquired territory and to establish American presence there before the European powers tried to claim it. It added 2.14 million square kilometers of land to the United States that stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada. #1 Its primary goals were to map Louisiana territory and to find a route to the PacificĬarried out during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 doubled the size of the United States and was by far the largest territorial gain in American history.
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