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After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery begin their arduous journey home.
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1803 acquisition of region of Middle America land by the U.S. from France
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1804–1806 American expedition
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