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- Title
Plan for the Expedition to Hudson Bay: A Newly Discovered Manuscript by Jean-Francois Galaup, Comte de Lapérouse.
- Authors
Combet, Denis
- Abstract
The article focuses on the significance of the 1782 expedition to Hudson Bay under the command of the French naval officer Jean-Francois Galaup Comte de Lapé rouse. Undertaken during the last part of the American War of Independence (1778 - 1783), the destruction of Prince of Wales Fort at the mouth of the Churchill River, as well as York Factory further south along the coast, stirred English public opinion and cost the Hudson's Bay Co. (HBC) millions of pounds, while the spoils brought three million francs to the French. Beyond its political and economic results, this military success allowed the French to regain knowledge of a region of which they had lost sight since the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.
- Subjects
HUDSON Bay; CHURCHILL River (Sask. &; Man.); SASKATCHEWAN; MANITOBA; NAVAL battles; HUDSON'S Bay Co.; NAVAL officers; TREATY of Utrecht (1713); HISTORY
- Publication
Manitoba History, 2006, Issue 52, p43
- ISSN
0226-5044
- Publication type
Article