His American Fur Company founded Fort Astoria at the site in 1811.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition spent the winter of 1805 – 1806 at Fort Clatsop, a small log structure south and west of modern day Astoria.

In 1810, John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company sent the Astor Expedition that founded Fort Astoria as its primary fur-trading post in the Northwest, and in fact the first permanent U. S. settlement on the Pacific coast.

Thompson reached the partially constructed Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia, arriving two months after the Pacific Fur Company's ship, the Tonquin.

On July 14, 1811, Thompson reached the partially constructed Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia, arriving two months after the Pacific Fur Company's ship, the Tonquin.

Before returning upriver and across the mountains, Thompson hired Naukane, a Native Hawaiian laborer brought to Fort Astoria by the Pacific Fur Company's ship Tonquin.

Following basic training at Fort Monmouth, he was assigned to the old Paramount studios in Astoria, Queens ( where he had directed three films in the early 1930s ), although he was permitted to lodge at the St. Regis Hotel in Manhattan.

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

The expedition faced its second bitter winter, and voted on whether to camp on the south side of the Columbia river ( modern Astoria, Oregon ), building Fort Clatsop.

* July 14 — David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Columbia River, finding Fort Astoria under construction.

Upon his arrival, he determined that the headquarters of the company at Fort Astoria ( now Astoria, Oregon ) at the mouth of the Columbia River was unfit.

The York Factory Express trade route evolved from an earlier express brigade used by the North West Company between Fort George ( originally Fort Astoria founded in 1811 by John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company ), at the mouth of the Columbia River, to Fort William on Lake Superior.

Too far from their horses to retrieve them, they had to cache most of their goods and walk the rest of the way to the Columbia River where they made new boats and traveled to the newly established Fort Astoria.

In early 1811, the supply ship Tonquin left supplies and men to establish Fort Astoria ( Oregon ) at the mouth of the Columbia River and Fort Okanogan ( Washington ) at the confluence of the Okanogan and Columbia Rivers.

In August 1811, three months after Fort Astor was established, David Thompson and his team of British North West Company explorers came floating down the Columbia to Fort Astoria.

The York Factory Express, establishing another route to the Oregon territory, evolved from an earlier express brigade used by the North West Company between Fort Astoria and Fort William, Ontario on Lake Superior.

The Hudson's Bay Company built a new much larger Fort Vancouver in 1824 slightly upstream of Fort Astoria on the Washington side of the Columbia River ( they were hoping the Columbia would be the future Canada – U. S. border ).

Its appeal from ballots to bullets at Fort Sumter ended by costing the Southerners their right to have slaves -- a right that was even less compatible with the sovereignty of man.

The new site was somewhat warmer than Fort Douglas and much closer to the great herds of buffalo on which the settlement must depend for food.

Nevertheless so short was the supply of seed that the settlers were forced to retreat to Fort Daer for food.

In September 1822 two companies of infantry arrived at the mouth of the St. Peter's River, the head of navigation on the Mississippi, and began construction of Fort St. Anthony which, upon completion, was renamed in honor of its commander, Colonel Josiah Snelling.

Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.

Early in 1822 he was at Fort Garry offering to bring in pork, flour, liquor and tobacco.

As the time drew near for the drawing of the British-American frontier by terms of the agreement of 1818, the company suspected that the Pembina colony -- its own post and Fort Daer -- was on American territory.

Fort Toulouse, on the Alabama River, had been erected in 1714 for trade with the Alabamas and Choctaws, but money was available for only one other new post, near the present Nashville, Tennessee, and this was soon abandoned.

Rep. James Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water development bill passed by the Texas House of Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort Worth to cover up places like Paradise, a Wise County hamlet of 250 people.

When he was inducted into the Army at Fort Knox, Ky., Hansen's weight had dropped to 180 -- `` too light for me to be at my best '' he said.

The commander of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Major Robert Anderson sent a request for provisions to Washington, and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war.

Gen. John B. Floyd, who was to take command at Fort Donelson as the senior general present just before Brig.

Fort Henry on the Tennessee River was in an especially unfavorable low – lying location commanded by hills on the Kentucky side of the river.

Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, although in a better location, also was not well – site, had a vulnerable land side and did not have enough heavy artillery for its defense against gunboats.

In 1858 he was transferred to Fort Moultrie in Charleston harbor, but by the start of the Civil War, he was a captain and second in command in the garrison at Fort Sumter, under Maj. Robert Anderson.

In the Fort Worth Star-Telegram daily newspaper ( morning edition ) 19 September 1970, J. Howard " Doc " DeCelles states that he was actually the victim of the first skyjacking in December 1929.

Trapping was minimal and, after traveling about 1300 miles ( 650 on foot ), he finally arrived at Fort Smith, Arkansas.

The early British capital of the Colony of Nova Scotia ( sometimes referred to as the 14th Colony ) was established at Annapolis Royal, where Fort Anne was constructed.

Colonisation began in 1603, when the Portuguese Pero Coelho de Souza constructed the Fort of São Tiago and founded the settlement of Nova Lisboa ( New Lisbon ).

On 17 March 1649 a French expedition of 203 men from Martinique, led by Jacques Dyel du Parquet who had been the Governor of Martinique on behalf of the Compagnie des Iles de l ' Amerique ( Company of the Isles of America ) since 1637, landed at St. Georges Harbour and constructed a fortified settlement, which they named Fort Annunciation.

The Kit Carson Chapel, located in Fort Lyon, Colorado, was constructed from the stones of the surgeons ' quarters where he died.

In 1871, the Royal Engineers constructed Jacob ’ s Ladder up the steep side of the valley from Jamestown to Knoll Mount Fort, with 700 steps, one step being covered over in later repairs.

In 1943, during World War II, HM Fort Roughs was constructed by the United Kingdom as one of the Maunsell Forts, primarily for defence against German mine-laying aircraft that might be targeting the estuaries that were part of vital shipping lanes ; it comprised a floating pontoon base with a superstructure of two hollow towers joined by a deck upon which other structures could be added.

The so-called " Zalinsky boat " was constructed in Hendrick's Reef ( former Fort Lafayette ), Bay Ridge in ( ray ) or ( rayacus the 3rd ) New York City borough of Brooklyn.

* Housesteads Fort is constructed on Hadrian's Wall north of Bardon Mill.

* The Hudson's Bay Company trading post Fort Edmonton is constructed ; the city of Edmonton, Alberta, eventually grows from it.

Training for ATF included such subjects as Close Quarters Combat, and combat medical instruction, and a mock up of the Mount Carmel complex was constructed at Fort Hood, Texas for rehearsals.

He first constructed Fort Presque Isle ( near present-day Erie, Pennsylvania ) on Lake Erie's south shore.

Marin constructed a second fort at Fort Le Boeuf ( present-day Waterford, Pennsylvania ), designed to guard the headwaters of LeBoeuf Creek.

Fort Dearborn was constructed by United States troops under the command of Captain John Whistler in 1803.

The original fort was destroyed following the Battle of Fort Dearborn in 1812, and a new fort was constructed on the same site in 1816.

They also constructed a wooden stockade to act as a lookout post above Road Town on the site that would eventually become Fort Charlotte.

Minuit constructed Fort Christina that year, then returned to Stockholm for a second load of colonists.

The depicted in the associated image was the second to be constructed in the State of Texas and ran thirty-five miles between Fort Worth and Dallas.

In the late 1890s, the Fort Crockett defenses and coastal artillery batteries were constructed in Galveston and along the Bolivar Roads.

* Aardenburg in Zeeland ( Netherlands ), originally named Fort Nieuw Terhofstede, together with the inevitable Fort Oranje constructed in 1621-1622.

* Senegal, along with Fort Oranje constructed on an island purchased from the head of a local tribe.

Fort Otter was constructed at Battleford's government house located at the capital of the North-West Territories.