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Picture Gallery: Saint Louis, MO Signature Event -
"Currents of Change"

Photo: Reenactors from the “Discovery Expedition of Saint Charles” portray the arrival of the Corps of Discovery at the US military post called the Belle Fontaine Cantonment on the Missouri River, at the end of their expedition.
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Photo: The white pirogue arrives at the US Army’s Belle Fontaine Cantonment on the Missouri River, carrying members of the Corps of Discovery at the end of their expedition.
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Photo: Portraying “Field Musicks” of the 1 st US Infantry Regiment, the Lewis and Clark Fife and Drum Corps of St. Charles, Missouri, prepares to “sound off” upon arrival of the expedition at the Belle Fontaine Cantonment...
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Photo: Reenactors from the US Army Corps of Engineers “Captain Lewis’ Company,” the Discovery Expedition of Saint Charles, Fort Belle Fontaine State Park interpretive staff, and others, portray the US Army garrison of the Belle Fontaine Cantonment preparing to greet the expedition on its September 1806 return.
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Photo: Reenactors portray the garrison of the Belle Fontaine Cantonment, the first US Army installation west of the Mississippi River, preparing to greet the expedition on its September 1806 return.
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Photo: Reenactors from the “Discovery Expedition of Saint Charles” portray the arrival of the Corps of Discovery, accompanied by representatives of American Indian nations, at the Belle Fontaine Cantonment.
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Photo: Members of the garrison congratulate members of the Corps on the completion of their mission.
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Photo: Uniformed Reenactors, wearing both “regimental” and “fatigue” uniforms to convey the military composition of the expedition, combine to form a battalion to “march past” in review according to the US Army drill regulations of the Jeffersonian period.
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Photo: Uniformed Reenactors “march past” in review according to the US Army “Manual Exercise” for drill of the Jeffersonian period.
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Photo: Volunteer reenactors from the Army Corps of Engineers and Frontier Army Museum Living History Association portraying Soldiers from a detachment of the 1 st US Infantry Regiment and garrison of the Belle Fontaine Cantonment.
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Photo: Field Musicks standing at “attention.” Musicians, or “musicks,” in the armies of the Jefferson-era conveyed camp and maneuver signals by fife and drum, as well as provided martial music for marching, parades and ceremonies.
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Photo: A recreation of Camp River Du Bois, the post at which the Corps of Discovery trained and prepared for their 1803 departure, as interpreted at the Lewis and Clark State Historic Site in Hartford, Illinois.
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Photo: A reenactor in Jeffersonian-era US Army fatigue uniform stands sentry duty at the gate of Camp River Du Bois.
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Photo: An Army Corps of Engineers reenactor portraying Captain William Clark demonstrates the use of a sextant employed to determine one’s location to an audience at the Visitors Center/ Museum at the Lewis and Clark Historic Site.
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Photo: A reenactor portraying Captain William Clark, who made the maps on the expedition, demonstrates the use of a sextant and surveying equipment like those used by the Corps of Discovery, at the Visitors Center/ Museum at the Lewis and Clark State Historic Site.
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Photo: Reenactors of “Captain Lewis Company” standing formation for their daily one gill of “rum” issue by the “orderly sergeant.” The two “civilians” (closest to the camera) represent the War Department contract employees who accompanied the “permanent party”: the hunter/ scout/ interpreter George Drouillard, and interpreter Toussaint Charbonneau (although the latter was never actually at River Du Bois), Sacagawea’s husband.
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Photo: The Missouri National Guard exhibit linked the role of the nation’s “Citizen-Soldiers, Then and Now,” at the final Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration National Signature Event.
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Photo: US Army Corps of Engineers interpretive display introduced visitors as to how the Army and its Soldiers have contributed to the development of the nation in peace and war, on the St. Louis Riverfront at the “Currents of Change” National Signature Event.
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Photo: The centerpiece events of the final Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration National Signature Event, “Currents of Change,” were appropriately held in the shadow of the “Gateway Arch,” at National Expansion National Historic Park on the west bank of the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Photo: The event’s festivities included the dedication of a larger than life sculpture depicting Captains Lewis and Clark’s arrival in St. Louis at the exact location of their September 23, 1806 landing.
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Photo: This larger than life sculpture depicting Captains Lewis and Clark’s arrival in St. Louis sits at the exact location of their September 23, 1806 landing.
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Photo: The Missouri National Guard and US Army Corps of Engineers exhibits, amid those of other federal agencies, portrayed the Lewis and Clark expedition as a military unit on a military mission at the final National Signature Event.
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Photo: The Closing Ceremonies began with the posting of tribal flags representing various Indian nations; most of them carried by US military veterans.
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Photo: Along with the flags representing various Indian nations posted, Soldiers of the Missouri Army National Guard present the national colors during the playing of “The Star Spangled Banner” the concluding Ceremonies of the “Currents of Change” Signature Event, bringing the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration to a close.
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Photo: Reenactors commemorate the arrival of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in St. Louis in ceremonies on the west bank of the Mississippi. The “civilian” (in the center) portrays George Drouillard.
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