On Big Stone Lake near the headwaters of the Red River, Robert Dickson, Superintendent of the Western Indian Department of Canada, had a trading post and planned in 1818 to build a fort to be defended by twenty men and two small artillery pieces.

In each of these there was to be a strong military post, and a trading depot to supply the smaller trading houses.

Stolpe speculated that the island may have been an important trading post, prompting him to conduct a series of archeological excavations between 1871-95.

Most imperial powers had not foreseen a need to prepare their colonies for independence ; for example, Britain had given limited self-rule to India and Sri Lanka, while treating British Somaliland as little more than a trading post, while all major decisions for French colonies were made in Paris and Belgium prohibited any self-government up until it suddenly granted independence to its colonies in 1960.

By 1851 the Eagle Station ranch located along the Carson River served as a trading post and stopover for travelers on the California Trail's Carson Branch which ran through Eagle Valley.

The valley and trading post received their name from a bald eagle that was hunted and killed by one of the early settlers and was featured on a wall inside the post.

The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle in present-day Delaware in the Middle region by establishing a trading post at Zwaanendael, near the site of Lewes in 1631.

In 1638 New Sweden, a Swedish trading post and colony, was established at Fort Christina ( now in Wilmington ) by Peter Minuit at the head of a group of Swedes, Finns and Dutch.

In 1798, the company sent him to Red Deer Lake ( in present-day Alberta ) to establish a trading post.

Thompson mapped and established trading posts in Northwestern Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Western Canada ; including Kootenae House and Saleesh House ; the first trading post west of the Rockies in Montana extending North West Company fur trading territories.

This was a response by the North West Company to the plans of John Jacob Astor to send a ship around the Americas to establish a fur trading post.

During Thompson's 1811 voyage down the Columbia River he camped at the junction with the Snake River on July 9, 1811, and erected a pole and a notice claiming the country for Great Britain and stating the intention of the North West Company to build a trading post at the site.

John Alden Shoudy came to the Kittitas Valley in 1871, and purchased a small trading post from Andrew Jackson " A. J.

However, the Portuguese found they could make considerable amounts of gold transporting slaves from one trading post to another, along the Atlantic coast of Africa.

Correctly guessing that this was Hudson Bay, they sought French backing for a plan to set up a trading post on the Bay, thus reducing the cost of moving furs overland.

The Hudson's Bay Company's second inland trading post was established by Samuel Hearne in 1774 in Cumberland House, Saskatchewan.

The early coastal factory ( trading post ) model contrasted with the system of the French, who established an extensive system of inland posts and sent traders to live among the tribes of the region.

The largest settlement was New France, with the towns of Quebec City ( 1608 ) and Montreal ( fur trading post in 1611, Roman Catholic mission established in 1639, and colony founded in 1642 ).

The next to arrive were the Dutch, the British — who set up a trading post in the west coast port of Surat in 1619 — and the French.

* 1949-The HBC moves its trading post from Ward Inlet to Apex

His Columbia River trading post at Fort Astoria ( established in April 1811 ) was the first United States community on the Pacific coast.

In 1796 Jean Pierre Chouteau, a French trader from St. Louis, established the first trading post in 1796 at the junction of the Grand / Neosho River and Saline Creek for business with the Osage.

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In the trading post scene, Cheyenne slides Harmonica's gun down the bar to him, challenging him to shoot – much like Morgan Earp ( Ward Bond ) sliding his weapon to brother Wyatt ( Henry Fonda ) in the Ford film when the Earps meet Doc Holiday ( Victor Mature ) for the first time.

In 2000, Audiovox moved trading to Nasdaq under VOXX ; announced an OEM contract with Nissan North America for the 2000 model year ; formed Audiovox Electronics Corp, a wholly owned subsidiary for the marketing of consumer and mobile electronics ; was added to the Russell 2000 ; received an OEM contract to supply mobile video for Ford 2001 models introduced its first MP3 Player ; completed its follow-on stock offering and increased its public float by two million shares ; and announced its first GMRS / GPS two-way radio.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

It developed as a trading centre at the head of a narrow, navigable inlet known as the Schlei, which connects to the Baltic Sea.

With the arrival of Italian trading firms, the creation of the military orders, and immigration by European knights, artisans, and farmers, the affairs of the Kingdom improved and a feudal society developed, similar to but distinct from the society the crusaders knew in Europe.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

Within a few years after the Civil War the city had reclaimed its important shipping and trading position and also developed a solid manufacturing base.

This road had started out in the Middle Ages as a lane running out from Berlin to the hamlet of Schöneberg, but it had developed into part of a trading route running right across Europe from Paris to St. Petersburg via Aachen, Berlin and Königsberg.

* Potsdamer Straße, developed out of that old road to Schöneberg and Potsdam, part of the former trading route across Europe, and leading south west.

Although the band has received little radio play or mainstream exposure, Phish has developed a large and dedicated following by word of mouth, the exchange of live recordings by trading tapes with other fans and selling over 8 million albums and DVDs in the United States.

Across Europe a wealthy merchant class developed in the important trading cities.

Iranian long-distance merchants from Fars developed marketing networks for these commodities, establishing trading houses in Bombay, Calcutta, Port Said, Istanbul and even Hong Kong.

While in Egypt and Mesopotamia, writing developed before 3000 BC, writing was not really used in Jordan, Canaan and Syria until some thousand years later, even though archeological evidence indicates that the Jordanians were in fact trading with Egypt and Mesopotamia.

Virginian traders developed a small-scale trading system with the Cherokee before the end of the 17th century ; the earliest recorded Virginia trader to visit the Cherokee was a certain Dority, in 1690.

Taiwan has developed steadily into a major international trading power with more than $ 218 billion in two-way trade and one of the highest foreign exchange reserves in the world.

He developed trading at the Kekionga, a center of the Miami people.

The oldest settlement was agricultural and later developed into a trading point along routes from Poznań to Żagań and further to Łużyce.

Its original site was in a valley in the sea cliffs and it developed through fishing and its closeness to the Continent as a landing place and trading port.

They developed a long trading relationship with French trappers and colonists.

Cape Girardeau County was organized on October 1, 1812, as one of five original counties and is named after Ensign Sieur Jean Baptiste de Girardot ( also spelled Girardeau or Girardat ), a French officer originally stationed at Kaskaskia, Illinois from 1704-1720 who later developed a trading post on the site on the present-day city of Cape Girardeau around 1733.

Later a trading post known as " Floyd " developed, and the village began to grow.

This area had developed into a thriving trading post due to steamboat traffic on the Macon.

On the relatively high, dry ground at the northern end of the bridge, a small, opportunistic trading and shipping settlement took root, and grew into the town of Londinium. A smaller settlement developed at the southern end of the bridge, in the area now known as Southwark.

According to others, however, this would harm the economies of less developed nations by discouraging the U. S. from trading with them.

He also developed an interest in sailing, and briefly commanded a small merchant schooner trading between Britain and Holland, which allowed him to import examples of furniture and carving from Flanders, with which he later furnished his house at Ramsgate.

Research on Fort Ross has indicated that several farms were developed inland from the coastal fur trading fort in northwestern Sonoma County.

After a trading post and post office were established, Milligan developed the surrounding property.