The Untold Truth Of The Slave Who Helped The Lewis And Clark Expedition Nathan Howard/Getty Images
By Sarah Crocker/March 5, 2021 1:23 am EDT
Most U.S. students have at least heard of the Lewis and Clark expedition. As History reports, the expedition in question took place from 1804 to 1806. President Thomas Jefferson had just completed the Louisiana Purchase, buying the previously French Louisiana Territory from none other than Napoleon Bonaparte and the government of France for a cool $15 million. The deal doubled the size of the United States, which was then barely out of its cradle, as far as nations go.
Never Say Die: Lessons From Michael Walsh’s ‘Last Stands’
Throughout history, men with their backs to the wall have time and again fought against overwhelming odds rather than surrender to their enemies. Why do they die battling to the last? What force drives them to fight on with rocks and fists after the blades of their swords are broken or their rifles are empty of bullets?
In the book “Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost,” Epoch Times columnist Michael Walsh raises these questions and others. Listen, for example, as he asks: “What is heroism? What are its moral components? Is it altruism, love, self-sacrifice? What are its amoral components fear of cowardice, lust for glory, pride? Why was it once celebrated, and now often dismissed as anachronistic at best, foolish and vainglorious at its worst?”