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1744 Map of James Bay, including "Fort Saint-Anne", the French name for Fort Albany. Fort Albany was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post established in 1679 near the site of the present day Fort Albany First Nation. The fort was one of the oldest and most important of the Hudson's Bay Company's posts.
Redoubt Saint Dionysius, with its annual expenses ₽12,000, was handed over to the British. In return for the additional areas to trade for furs, the HBC had to provide the RAC 2,000 land otter pelts per year. The HBC also had to supply New Archangel with 14,000 poods of wheat, worth ₽52,5000, along with a multitude of provisions needed. [4]
The Jamestown supply missions were a series of fleets (or sometimes individual ships) from 1607 to around 1611 that were dispatched from England by the London Company (also known as the Virginia Company of London) with the specific goal of initially establishing the company's presence and later specifically maintaining the English settlement of "James Fort" on present-day Jamestown Island.
Bay (Bayette, Bayeta) was a napped coarse woolen fabric, not technically considered cloth, [1] introduced to England by Flemish immigrants in the 16th century. [2] It was produced in Essex at Colchester and Bocking , and also in various towns in the West of England.
The Atlantic triangular trade formed a major component of the colonial American economy, involving Europe, Africa and the Americas.The primary component of the transatlantic triangular trade consisted of slave ships from Europe sailing to Africa loaded with manufactured goods; once the ships arrived at African shores, the European slavers would exchange the goods aboard their ships for ...
Last month, with the U.S. and Mexico on the brink of a trade war, she managed to persuade Trump, during a 45-minute phone call, to delay imposing tariffs. Afterward, Trump said he "had a great ...
Hudson's Bay Company entered the coast trade in the 1820s with the intention of driving the Americans away. This was accomplished by about 1840 just as the fur trade industry started dying due to lack of supply and a style change in felt hats—felt was made from fur and the main fur market.
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