Following the events in Kentucky, Burr returns to the West later in 1806 to recruit more volunteers for a military expedition down the Mississippi River.
He begins using Blennerhasset Island in the Ohio River to store men and supplies.
The Governor of Ohio grows suspicious of the activity there, and orders the state militia to raid the island and seize all supplies.
Harman Blennerhasset, an Anglo-Irish lawyer and politician, escapes with one boat, and he meets up with Burr at the operation’s headquarters on the Cumberland River.
With a significantly smaller force, the two head down the Ohio to the Mississippi River and New Orleans.
