He was made a brigadier general at the beginning of the War of 1812, and died when a powder magazine exploded during the assault on York.
He was made a brigadier general at the beginning of the War of 1812, and died when a powder magazine exploded during the assault on York. Arrested by the Spanish in Santa Fe, he returned east in 1810, publishing An Account of Expeditions to the Sour  ces of the Mississippi. FTP, identify this explorer, commissioned by James Wilkinson to explore the upper Mississippi, whose second expedition to Colorado and New Mexico led to his sighting of the mountain that now bears his name.
He was made a brigadier general at the beginning of the War of 1812, and died when a powder magazine exploded during the assault on York.
Zebulon Pike