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1792 Discovery

1792 DISCOVERY  Capt. George Vancouver, from King's Lynn, England at age 35 and with orders from the British Admiralty to explore and chart the West Coast of America, charted hundreds of miles of...

1792 DISCOVERY 

Capt. George Vancouver, from King's Lynn, England at age 
35 and with orders from the British Admiralty to explore 
and chart the West Coast of America, charted hundreds 
of miles of coast line from California to Alaska. His maps 
were so accurate that they were later used in establishing 
boundaries between the Spanish, the English, the Russians 
and the Americans.

During the return voyage of his expedition, Capt. Vancouver 
commissioned Lt. William Broughton to enter the Columbia 
River in long boats to explore inland. It was during this 
venture that the area was proclaimed in the name of
England, and was charted in honor of Capt. George Vancouver.

Capt. Vancouver with his crews of the H.M.S. Discovery 
and the H.M.S. Chatham returned to England and published 
his famous journals and maps. He subsequently died at 
age 40 in 1797.

Some 32 years later, in 1824, Dr. John McLoughlin and Sir 
George Simpson, of the Hudson Bay Company, using the 
accurate journal and map published by CApt. George 
Vancouver, established the first permanent settlement in 
the Pacific Northwest and named it Fort Vancouver.

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