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Fort Astoria (also named Fort George) was the primary fur trading post of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company (PFC). A maritime contingent of PFC staff was sent on board the Tonquin, while another party traveled overland from St. Louis. This land based group later became known as the Astor Expedition.
Fort Duquesne. Fort Duquesne was a Park ship built by West Coast Shipbuilders Ltd. [19] Launched as Queensborough Park on 28 September 1944, [53] she was completed on 25 November. [19] Built for the MoWT, she was placed under the management of George Nisbet & Co. [53] Renamed Fort Duquesne in 1945. [19] Management transferred to Alfred Holt ...
The personnel then proceeded fifteen miles up the river to present-day Astoria, Oregon, [16] where they spent two months laboring to establish Fort Astoria. Some trade goods and other materials that composed the cargo were transferred to the new trading post. [36] During this work, small transactions with curious Chinookan Clatsop people occurred.
The Adams–Onís Treaty (Spanish: Tratado de Adams-Onís) of 1819, [1] also known as the Transcontinental Treaty, [2] the Spanish Cession, [3] the Florida Purchase Treaty, [4] or the Florida Treaty, [5] [6] was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico ().
He led the party that established Fort Astoria in Oregon, married Ilchee Moon Woman, daughter of Chief Comcomly of the Chinook Confederacy, and left her in 1813. By 1813 the Nor'westers had purchased Astoria and McDougall became a partner in the NWC in 1816. In 1817 he returned east to Fort William with Angus Bethune and others.
In 1811, while working for John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, Ross took part in the founding of Fort Astoria, a fur-trading post at the mouth of the Columbia River. During the same year he led a detachment up the Columbia River and founded Fort Okanogan where during the winter he was the sole PFC employee at the trading post. [4]
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Fort Astoria was reached on 9 May 1812 after crossing the Columbia Bar. At Astoria news about the destruction of the Tonquin by members of the Tla-o-qui-aht nation was confirmed. [3] After unloading necessary supplies to the Fort, directives from Astor dictated that the Beaver was to then go north to Russian America to purchase additional furs. [4]