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 | | However, it was not the Corps of Discovery that departed Pittsburgh with him on August 31. |
 | | Two of the men who signed on at Pittsburgh may have been George Shannon and John Colter, although it is unclear whether they began the downstream trip here or in Maysville, Ky Shannon was, at 18, to become the youngest of the Corps (1), as a private (4). |
 | | Of the Corps were the two commissioned officers (Lewis and Clark), one interpreter/hunter (Drouillard), two French river men, York, Clark's seven, the two from Pittsburgh (Shannon and Colter), and 14 regular army soldiers (2, 4). |
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