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Builder William Shannon's contract read, "There are to be two inside partition walls of stone from the foundation to the top, one foot thick. One chimney in each end, with two fireplaces in each chimney, said chimney to go up with said building, the…

This journey would take them another 276 miles through much of the unsure terrain, where the Ohio Indian wars had only ended five years earlier.

The Brothers travel from Louisville to Kentucky's second oldest city, Bardstown, which was also also the first center of Roman Catholicism west of the Appalachian Mountains in the original western frontier territories of the United States as noted…

On November 30, 1817, they reach Louisville, a town of 4,012 people (13 years before the opening of the Louisville and Portland Canal and the establishment of the Louisville Daily Journal).

Their journey would still require another 278.6 miles…

The Brothers arrive in Pittsburgh, a town which was newly chartered in 1816 and only had a population of 7,248 according to the upcoming 1820 census.

This scene shows soldiers from Brittany presenting their flag in gratitude to the Brothers in Nantes for hosting them before they head off to battle.