[1]Tomorrow:
October 11
1470: Henry VI flees,
[2]to The Hague
1809: Meriwether Lewis d., Meriwether Lewis died along the Natchez
Trace, Tennessee, under mysterious circumstances in the early hours of
the morning after stopping for the night at Grinder's Tavern along the
Natchez Trace. He had spent the night before at Sinclair's Station now
the site of The Sinclair, Skinner, Yeiser House. Three years earlier,
Lewis and William Clark had completed their brilliant exploration of
the newly acquired Louisiana Territory and the Pacific Northwest.
President Thomas Jefferson appointed him as governor of the Louisiana
Territory, but Lewis soon discovered that the politics and power
struggles of the territory were earning him more enemies than friends.
Bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., were questioning the legitimacy of
some of the purchases Lewis had made for the expedition in 1803, the
threat of bankruptcy hung before him if he were forced to cover these
costs. --[3]labehotiere@wanadoo.fr Source: The Strange Death of
Governor Meriwether Lewis, Vardes Fisher Swallow Pr; ISBN: 0804006164,
1993
References
1. http://sinclair.quarterman.org/timeline.html
2. http://www.angelfire.com/de/BobSanders/TIME1.html
3. mailto:labehotiere@wanadoo.fr
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