Prince of Wales Fort
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Prince of Wales Fort is a historic bastion fort on Hudson Bay across the Churchill River from Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. It is the oldest building in the country west of Ontario, and the northernmos
Prince of Wales Fort
Hudson Bay expedition
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The Hudson Bay expedition was a series of military raids on the fur trading outposts and fortifications of the British Hudson's Bay Company on the shores of Hudson Bay by a French Navy squadron under
Prince of Wales Fort
…24-pound balls. There was also a battery across the river on Cape Merry meant to hold six more cannon. In the 1780s, the French government launched a Hudson Bay expedition to damage HBC activities in that bay. Three French warships of the expedition, led by Jean-François de La Pérouse, captured the Prince of Wales Fort…
A French illustration of Prince of Wales Fort (1782)
1778 portrait of Lapérouse by Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu
An illustration of governor of Prince of Wales Fort Samuel Hearne, who was captured during the expedition