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How did john meares gain so much notoriety from his activities in the pacific North West?

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John Meares (c. 1756 – 1809) was a navigator, explorer, and maritime fur trader, best known for his role in the Nootka Crisis, which brought Britain and Spain to the brink of war.

river as that of St. Roc exists, as laid down in the Spanish charts" (Meares). He wryly assigned the label "Cape Disappointment" to the distinctive landmark.

The 230-ton snow (a two-masted sailing vessel) Felice was actually a British ship (the former Nootka) with a mostly British crew. A partnership between Meares and a Portuguese merchant in Macao made possible her Portuguese flag. It allowed the Englishman to avoid sharing his profits with the East India Company, which monopolized British trading in the Pacific.

Meares, a Royal Navy lieutenant, had last been on active duty in England’s war with its American colonies (1776-1783). His late 1780s efforts to establish a fur-trading post at Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island nearly caused a war between England and Spain since Spain claimed possession of the Pacific Northwest coast. Although that war did not materialize, its threat stirred the British government to action. In 1790, Parliament appropriated £1,000,000 to refurbish the Royal Navy. This came just in time to prepare England’s fleet for the Napoleonic Wars (1798-1815). The threat of war over Nootka Sound persuaded Spain to relinquish claims to territory north of California. 

There is no record of Meares serving on active duty after 1783. Nevertheless, in 1795 the Royal Navy promoted him to the rank of commander after establishing that rank in 1794. Spain also reimbursed him an amount, said to be over $200,000 American, for property seized at Nootka Sound. The windfall allowed him to retire.

Meares' designation of Cape Disappointment would last, notwithstanding Yankee Captain Robert Gray (1755-1806). Gray, in the Columbia Rediviva, crossed the Columbia River bar on May 11, 1792. Gray traded with Indians at Chinook, then returned to the mouth of the river on May 19th. He landed on the north riverbank, raised the American flag, planted some coins under a large pine tree, and claimed possession for the United States. His ship's log for that day recorded "Captain Gray gave this river the name of Columbia River and the north side of the entrance Cape Hancock …" (Lewis & Dryden).

Gray's patriotic "Cape Hancock" remained an alternate name for the headland well into the nineteenth century. Meares' more dramatic "Cape Disappointment," however, became the lasting nomenclature

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The abolitionist John Brown (1800-1859) was involved in the killing of five people in the Pottawatomie massacre, as a leader of an anti-slavery group in Kansas in 1856. Three years later, he was captured, tried, and executed for his attack on the armory at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.
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