Industrial Age · North America · Exploration

1803

Lewis Picks Clark

May 12, 1803

Meriwether Lewis wrote to William Clark, an old army friend in Indiana, inviting him to co-command the expedition Jefferson had just funded. Clark answered yes. The partnership that followed, and the quiet Lemhi Shoshone interpreter they would pick up in North Dakota, became one of the great collaborative stories in American exploration.

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Also in 1803 (5 other events on record)

Louisiana Purchase · North America · Politics
Britain Declares War on France · Europe · War
Battle of Assaye · South Asia · War
Marbury v. Madison · North America · Politics
Haitian Yellow Fever Kills Leclerc · North America · War

Before and after in North America

Before: March 4, 1801: Jefferson's First Inaugural
After: January 1, 1804: Haiti Declares Independence

Before and after in Exploration

Before: 1795: Mungo Park Explores the Niger
After: May 14, 1804: Lewis and Clark Set Out

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.