Having started upstream on the Missouri River<span> from their </span>St. Louis<span>-area camp—where they had been preparing for the expedition since fall 1803—on May 14, William Clark and nearly four dozen other men met up with Meriwether Lewis on May 20. hth</span>
An ideological war existed? Sorry, its just your format is kind of awkward is all.
It resulted in the Boston massacre of 1770.