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 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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