Desertions One accomplished, one attempted;
both early. None
from the final party.
The Country Explored
The New Territory of Louisiana Stretched from the Mississippi
River to the summit of
the Rocky Mountains.
Owned first by France. By
France ceded to Spain, 1762.
By Spain secretly ceded back
to France, 1800. In April,
1803, purchased from France
by the United States for
$15,000,000.
The Columbia Country The Northwest lying between
California and Canada,
and the Rocky Mountains
and the Pacific Ocean.
In 1792 visited by Captain
Robert Gray of the American
ship Columbia from Boston,
who entered and named the
Columbia. The same year
visited by Captain George
Vancouver, an English navigator.
Claimed by both the
United States and England.
Awarded to the United
States by treaty of 1846.
