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Russian American Company

by Gerard Van Der Vaart, 19 Mar 1996

What was the Russian American Company?
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What was the Russian American Company?

The Russian American Company was a semi-official corporation set up by the Russian government to regulate the fur trade and other commercial enterprises in Alaska and other Pacific-Northwest parts of North America, from 1799 until 1861.
Chris Pinette, 05 Oct 1996, and Bruce Tindall, 12 Jun 1997

From 1806 they actually had forts in what is today US territory: Alaska, Oregon and California. I believe they may have had a fort or two in British Columbia but of this I am not certain.
Dave Martucci, 20 Oct 1996

They set up forts and trading posts on the Pacific Coast of North America in the early 19th century up to the time the United States bought Alaska from the Tsar in 1867.
Nick Artimovich, 20 Mar 1996

It was a colonial charter company like the English and Dutch East India Companies, and the ones that founded the colonies on the U.S. eastern seaboard. Fort Ross, on the California coast just north of San Francisco, was the southernmost outpost of Russian America, and is now a museum. I believe the Russian American Co flag flies over the fort.
T. F. Mills, 12 Jun 1997

Russian American Company

What was the Russian American Company?

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