The Selkirk settlers had been anticipated in their move southward by British fur traders.

Activity by British traders and the presence of a colony on the Red prompted the United State War Department in 1819 to send Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Leavenworth from Detroit to put a post 300 miles northwest of Prairie Du Chien, until then the most advanced United States post.

For southeastern Louisiana, Mobile was the principal post, and it was to furnish supplies for trade to the north and east, in the region threatened by British traders.

British traders from South Carolina incited the Indians against the French, and there developed French and British Factions in the tribe.

Bienville realized that if the French were to hold the southeastern tribes against the enticements of British goods, French traders must be able to offer a supply as abundant as the Carolinians and at reasonable prices.

Category: British slave traders and slave holders

Genoese came during the 18th and 19th centuries, especially from the poorer parts of Liguria, some of them annually following fishing shoals, as repairmen for the British navy, or as successful traders and merchants ; many others came during the Napoleonic period to avoid obligatory conscription to the French Army.

Themes developed in the novella's later scenes include the naïveté of Europeans ( particularly women ) regarding the various forms of darkness in the Congo ; the British traders and Belgian colonialists ' abuse of the natives and man's potential for duplicity.

By the 1850s, British and German missionaries and traders had penetrated present-day Namibia.

After the early explorations, the U. S. government sought to establish control of the region, since trade along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers was still dominated by British and French traders from Canada and allied Indians, especially the Sauk and Fox.

British traders became prominent visitors in the 18th century, followed by expanding Spanish influence in the 19th century.

Before that time the region between the Vaal and Limpopo was scarcely known to Europeans, but in 1829, Mzilikazi was visited at Mosega by Robert Moffat, and between that date and 1836 a few British traders and explorers visited the country and made known its principal features.

While the British colonialists considered his regime to be a future threat, allegations that white traders wished his death are problematic given that Shaka had granted concessions to whites prior to his death, including the right to settle at Port Natal ( now Durban ).

However, British rule came at price for many ordinary people as well as traders.

The Bowring Treaty, which was signed in 1855, guaranteed privileges of the British traders.

British merchants who declared openly that they were Christian and would not trade with heathens and infidels ( Muslims and the Norse ) would get preferred status for availability and pricing of goods through a Christian network of traders.

Improving technology and increasing control of world markets allowed British traders to develop a commercial chain in which raw cotton fibers were ( at first ) purchased from colonial plantations, processed into cotton cloth in the mills of Lancashire, and then exported on British ships to captive colonial markets in West Africa, India, and China ( via Shanghai and Hong Kong ).

This, coupled with the emergence of American cotton as a superior type ( due to the longer, stronger fibers of the two domesticated native American species, Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense ), encouraged British traders to purchase cotton from plantations in the United States and the Caribbean.

British and French traders invested heavily in cotton plantations and the Egyptian government of Viceroy Isma ' il took out substantial loans from European bankers and stock exchanges.

After the American Civil War ended in 1865, British and French traders abandoned Egyptian cotton and returned to cheap American exports, sending Egypt into a deficit spiral that led to the country declaring bankruptcy in 1876, a key factor behind Egypt's occupation by the British Empire in 1882.

* Since the establishment of its presidencies in 1689, the British East India Company has been under constant pressure from traders who are not members of the company and are not licensed by the Crown to trade.

In June 1747, concerned about the incursion and expanding influence of British traders such as George Croghan in the Ohio Country, Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière, the Governor-General of New France, ordered Pierre-Joseph Céloron to lead a military expedition through the area.

He asked the government for two hundred soldiers, who were to be specifically assigned to arrest English traders and disloyal Indians.

In the 10th century, the Song Dynasty government began circulating these notes amongst the traders in their monopolized salt industry.

These were often petty shopkeepers of urban marketplaces ; merchants such as industrialists and itinerant traders working between a network of cities could avoid registering as merchants and were often wealthier and more powerful than the vast majority of government officials.

The 1st Roundtable in 2007 brought together more than 200 stakeholders representing 25 countries, including cocoa farmers, government officials from cocoa producing and consuming countries, traders, chocolate manufacturers, donor organizations and national and international NGOs.

The Qing government agreed to make Hong Kong Island a crown colony, ceding it to the British Queen " in perpetuity " to provide British traders with a harbour where they could unload their goods ( Article III ).

In addition, the government secured permission to build and maintain roads for European-American travelers and traders through Indian country on the Plains, such as the Emigrant Trail and the Santa Fe Trail, and to maintain forts to guard them.

He was elected by Wyandot, white traders, and outside interests who wished to preempt the federal government ’ s organization of the territory and to benefit from settlement of Kansas by white settlers.

This was not, however, sufficient for either the free traders or the more extreme tariff reformers in the government.

By 1905 relatively few Unionist MPs were still free traders ( the young Winston Churchill crossed over to the Liberals in 1904 when threatened with deselection at Oldham ), but Balfour's long balancing act had drained his authority within the government.

The Mexican peso was also briefly legal tender in 19th century Siam, when government mints were unable to accommodate a sudden influx of foreign traders, and was exchanged at a rate of three pesos to one Thai baht.

His reports resulted in the French government providing funding to send settlers, missionaries, traders, and soldiers to the Great Lakes region.

Pressure from traders who wanted to be paid and concern from government officials about the ability of the Dakota to earn the money they wanted, led to the 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux.

Some traders acquired large tracts of land prior to 1840 and the British government was concerned to protect the Māori from exploitation.

These consist of investment banks who have traders who make markets in these derivatives, and clients such as hedge funds, commercial banks, government sponsored enterprises, etc.

The government and its appointees licensed traders to set up trading posts in Indian territory.

The French government made efforts to encourage marriage for the male soldiers and traders in New France by granting dowries to women willing to travel to the colony at Quebec.

It reflected the reality of fur trappers and traders frequently marrying Native American women in their territories ; in Canada the ethnic Métis people have been recognized by the government as a distinct group with status similar to First Nations.

Suburbs for traders and artisans sprang up, who, after the 13th century, began to influence the municipal government.

In 1892 the small groups of the Donghak movement were united into a single Peasant Guerrilla Army ( Donghak Peasant Army ) who armed themselves ; they raided government offices and killed rich landlords, traders and foreigners.

The government subsequently allowed private traders to purchase wheat directly from farmers that year resulting in a paucity of wheat to stock FCI granaries.

The peasants worked in the fields during the day, but during the night, they armed themselves and raided government offices and killed rich landlords, traders, and foreigners.

Small parties of trappers and traders entered the interior, and, though the federal government provided little money to the region, army officers would occasionally explore on their own.