The founder of Fort Snelling, an island named for this man was the destination of many involved in a mass hanging during the Dakota War in Mankato, Minnesota. During the War of 1812, he served in New Orleans as inspector-general, having earlier commanded the Fourth Infantry at the Battle of Tippecanoe before being killed in an attack on modern-day Toronto. He misidentified Leech Lake as the source of the Mississippi River when Governor James Wilkinson sent him on his first expedition, while a second expedition ended in arrest by the Spanish, but not before he coined the phrase "Great American Desert." FTP, name this American explorer, who has
The founder of Fort Snelling, an island named for this man was the destination of many involved in a mass hanging during the Dakota War in Mankato, Minnesota. During the War of 1812, he served in New Orleans as inspector-general, having earlier commanded the Fourth Infantry at the Battle of Tippecanoe before being killed in an attack on modern-day Toronto. He misidentified Leech Lake as the source of the Mississippi River when Governor James Wilkinson sent him on his first expedition, while a second expedition ended in arrest by the Spanish, but not before he coined the phrase "Great American Desert." FTP, name this American explorer, who has a namesake "peak" in Colorado.
The founder of Fort Snelling, an island named for this man was the destination of many involved in a mass hanging during the Dakota War in Mankato, Minnesota.
Zebulon Montgomery {Pike}