Louisiana Purchase and Lewis & Clark People

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) is considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America for the central role he played in drafting the Declaration of Independence. During the America...

Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) was a young army officer appointed by Thomas Jefferson to lead the Corps of Discovery on its 1804-1806 round-trip journey across the unknown continent to the Pacific. U...

William Clark (1770-1838), a lifelong military man, was asked by his friend Meriwether Lewis to serve as co-leader of the Corps of Discovery on its 1804-1806 round-trip journey across the continent...

Robert Livingston (1746-1813) was a New York political leader of the Revolutionary era. He may be best known for serving on the five-man committee (alongside Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin...

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was a French military officer who rose through the chaos of the French Revolution to become Emperor of France. In the first two decades of the nineteenth century, Nap...

Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803) was a plantation slave in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue. After slaves on the island launched an uprising in 1791, Toussaint liberated himself, then...

Sacagawea (1787-1812) was a young Shoshone Indian woman who, while pregnant with her first child, accompanied the Lewis & Clark expedition on their journey to the Pacific. Traveling alongside her h...