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  2. Fort Astoria - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. 1917 Costa Rican coup d'état - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Castle, then seat of the government. The 1917 Costa Rican coup d'état of 27 January 1917 was a rupture of the constitutional order in the Republic of Costa Rica, where the constitutional President Alfredo González Flores, [1] was overthrown by his Minister of War and Navy Federico "Pelico" Tinoco and his brother and army commander José Joaquín Tinoco.

  4. Tonquin (1807 ship) - Wikipedia

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    Work began in May 1811 on the sole trading post founded by Tonquin, Fort Astoria, on the present-day Oregon coast. After construction was completed, the ship departed with a majority of the trade goods and general provisions from the fort, intending to trade them with indigenous tribes on the coast of Vancouver Island .

  5. List of Fort ships - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Juan Santamaría International Airport - Wikipedia

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    It is named after Costa Rica's national hero, Juan Santamaría, a drummer boy who died in 1856 defending his country against forces led by William Walker, an American filibuster. It is the biggest and busiest airport in Costa Rica and second in Central America with more than 5 million passengers per year before COVID.

  7. History of Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    Sparrow and the Hawk: Costa Rica and the United States during the Rise of José Figueres (University of Alabama Press, 1997). Mount, Graeme S. "Costa Rica and the Cold War, 1948–1990." Canadian Journal of History 50.2 (2015): 290–316. Olien, Michael D. "Black and part-Black populations in colonial Costa Rica: Ethnohistorical resources and ...

  8. List of wars involving Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    Costa Rican Civil War (1948) Costa Rica Calderón Forces People's Vanguard Party Somoza Forces: National Liberation Movement Ulatistas: Regime change. Teodoro Picado Michalski toppled; Calderonista invasion of Costa Rica (1955) Costa Rica: Calderón Forces Nicaragua: Victory. Nicaraguan withdrawal from Costa Rica; Dominican Civil War (1965–1966)

  9. Pre-Columbian history of Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    The pre-Columbian history of Costa Rica extends from the establishment of the first settlers until the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the Americas. Archaeological evidence allows us to date the arrival of the first humans to Costa Rica to between 7000 and 10,000 BC. By the second millennium BC sedentary farming communities already existed.

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