| Fort Ross...has worn me out.
My archaeology field school class is attempting to locate the Russian windmill at Fort Ross. Fort Ross was the southernmost expansion of the Russian American Company, whose primary trade and profit was pelts of sea mammals. They needed a climate where they could grow/raise food so their Alaskan outposts could continue clubbing baby seals, and so sent an expedition down the North American coast. They ended up at the coast North of San Francisco, and proceeded to suck at agriculture. The Spanish hated them - as every European power in that time felt as paranoid as someone playing the board-game Risk - and built some missions north of the bay to kinda hint that California was theirs. And then they proceeded to ask Fort Ross if their fine metalsmiths could cast the mission bells. *rolls eyes*
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