General James Wilkinson, commander of the Western…

July 1806 CE

General James Wilkinson, commander of the Western Department, in an agreement with Burr, had ordered Lieutenant Zebulon Pike, age twenty-seven, to lead an expedition to the western and southern areas of the Louisiana Purchase to map the terrain, contact the Native American peoples, and to find the headwaters of the Red River.

Burr and Wilkinson are apparently interested in the most favorable route for the conquest of the Southwest.

Pike leaves Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri on July 15 with a detachment of twenty soldiers and fifty Osage hostages, freed for return to their people.

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Bellefontaine St Louis Missouri United States View →

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Aaron Burr View → James Wilkinson View → Zebulon Pike View →

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Osage Nation (Amerind tribe) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Louisiana, Territory of (U.S.A.) View →

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Pike Expedition View →

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