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 Desertions                 One accomplished, one attempted; both early. None from the final party.

The New Territory of Louisiana Stretched from the Mississippi River to the summit of                               the Rocky Mountains. Owned first by France. By                               France ceded to Spain, 1762. By Spain secretly ceded back to France, 1800. In April, 1803, purchased from France by the United States for $15,000,000.

The Columbia Country           The Northwest lying between California and Canada, and the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. In 1792 visited by Captain Robert Gray of the American ship Columbia from Boston, who entered and named the Columbia. The same year visited by Captain George Vancouver, an English navigator. Claimed by both the United States and England. Awarded to the United States by treaty of 1846.