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He was born on August 1 in Charlottsville, Virginia.
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Lewis was born near Charlottesville, VA as a child he lived next to Thomas Jefferson.
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Lewis was picked as the commander of the expedition. He writes to Clark to ask him to join the expedition with him
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Lewis takes a large keelboat that was constructed Pittsburgh. He travels down the Ohio River to pick up Clark
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They started the expeditioin by firing cannon shoots into the river they named it Independence Creek.
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Lewis and Clark send the keelboat and a dozen men back downriver with maps, reports, and Indian artifacts for Jefferson. The rest of them went west.
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Clark names the Judith River in honor of a girl back in Virginia he hopes to marry.
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- Lewis discovers a village of Shoshones and tries to negotiate for horses.
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They set out with a Shoshone guide called Old Toby, along with 29 horses and a mule.The expedition sets out with a Shoshone guide called Old Toby, along with 29 horses and a mule.
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They finely made it to the Columbia River.
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Clark sees Mount Hood in the distance, named by a British sea captain in 1792, proof that they are near the ocean.
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Clark had married Julia "Judith" Hancock for whom he had named a river while on the expedition
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