the United States. John ledjard

you are: the United States

A little bit later with the grandiose plan to cross North American continent from gulf Nutka John Ledjard has acted and even has started its realisation. It has passed the big distance on territory of Siberia in a direction to Kamchatka, but Russian government cancelled the permission given out to it, and he had to throw the enterprise. Subsequent activity Ledjarda as the traveller across Africa is known, but anybody more did not revive its plan to cross the American continent from the West on the east.

In the beginning of XIX century political events in America have riveted attention of the government of the United States on those possibilities that opened, and to dangers that concealed in itself proceeding neosvoennost the West. On January, 18th, 1803 Jefferson who already before has shown interest to project Karvera, has addressed with the special message to the congress in which petitioned for assignment of 2500 dollars formally ' on business of expansion of foreign trade of the United States ', and actually on a parcel of expedition for northwest research. Such masking, he wrote, ' is necessary not to involve excessive attention and to secure it against those obstacles, what interested persons otherwise could put on its way '.