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    Jefferson

    National Expansion Memorial Missouri

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Engages

Engagés were hired to make the journey for only the first year. They were "special labor," necessary to help with rowing and pulling the keelboat and pirogues up the Missouri River. They spent the winter of 1804-1805 with the Corps of Discovery in the Mandan Villages. In the spring of 1805, the engagés returned with the keelboat, diaries, and specimens to St. Louis.

E. Cann La Liberté
Charles Caugeé Etienne Malboeuf
Joseph Collin Peter Pinaut
Jean Baptiste Deschamps Paul Primeau
Charles Hebert François Rivet
Jean Baptiste La Jeunesse Peter Roi


 
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