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Robert Gray (sea captain) - Wikipedia Robert Gray (May 10, 1755 – c July 1806) was an American merchant sea captain who is known for his achievements in connection with two trading voyages to the northern Pacific coast of North America, between 1790 and 1793, which pioneered the American maritime fur trade in that region
Robert Gray | Pacific Coast, Columbia River, Maritime Fur Trade Robert Gray was the captain of the first U S ship to circumnavigate the globe and explorer of the Columbia River Gray went to sea at an early age, and after serving in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War, he entered the service of a Massachusetts trading company
Robert Gray (1755–1806) - The Oregon Encyclopedia Robert Gray (1755–1806) On May 11, 1792, Robert Gray, the first American to circumnavigate the world (1787-1790), sailed the Columbia Rediviva into the Columbia River, the first documented ship to anchor in the river’s broad estuary
Captain Robert Gray becomes the first non-Indian navigator to enter the . . . Gray, a Rhode Island born captain in the employ of a consortium of Boston merchants, was on his second voyage to the Northwest in search of sea otter and other furs On his first voyage around Cape Horn and up the Pacific Coast in 1788, he had noted a strong current at the mouth of the Columbia
Robert Gray | Encyclopedia. com Robert Gray 1755-1806 American navigator who explored the northwest coast of North America and in 1792 discovered the Columbia River, which he named after his ship Gray also circumnavigated the globe twice, becoming in 1790 the first American to lead a ship around the world
Robert Gray - Encyclopedia. com Robert Gray (1755-1806) was the first American to circumnavigate the globe He discovered the Columbia River while exploring the coastline of the Oregon country Robert Gray was born in Tiverton, R I , on May 10, 1755
Robert Gray (1788-1793) - PRIMARILY WASHINGTON Robert Gray was the first American to sail to the Pacific Northwest The goal of his expedition was to trade with the Northwest Indians for furs, trade those furs in China for tea, then return to Boston From his expeditions Robert Gray discovered and named the Columbia River and Grays Harbor
About Captain Robert Gray - Garibaldi Museum About Captain Robert Gray Captain Robert Gray’s discovery of the Columbia River on May 11, 1792, proved to be highly significant to the new born United States In 1803, eleven years after Gray entered the great river of the west on the ship, Columbia Redivivia, the United States acquired the Louisiana Purchase from France