[DOC] [TLE] American Fur Company - Wikipedia [PAR] The American Fur Company was founded in 1808, by John Jacob Astor, a 
German immigrant to the United States. Under his leadership, the company grew 
to monopolize the fur trade in the United States by 1830, and became one of the 
largest and wealthiest businesses in the country. ... During the War of 1812, many 
of the American Fur Company's trading posts... [DOC] [TLE] Pacific Fur Company - Wikipedia [PAR] The Pacific Fur Company (PFC) was an American fur trade venture wholly owned 
and funded by John Jacob Astor that functioned from 1810 to 1813. It was based 
in the Oregon Country, a region of the Pacific Northwest .... During this time Astor 
formally began his American Fur Company (AFC), a lasting trading concern... [DOC] [TLE] Fort Astoria - Wikipedia [PAR] Fort Astoria (also named Fort George) was the primary fur trading post of John 
Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company (PFC). Built at the entrance of the Columbia 
River in 1811, it was the first American-owned settlement on the Pacific coast. 
With the onset of the War of 1812, the Montreal-based North West Company ... In 
1821 the Hudson's Bay Company took over the NWC, and Fort George... [DOC] [TLE] The War of 1812 and the Oregon Country - Upper Mississippi Brigade [PAR] Struggle for Astoria and the Pacific furtrade during the War of 1812. ... handful of 
American and British citizens living in the region, and neither country had an ... 
By establishing a trading post at the mouth of the Columbia River where it enters 
... This was the company he would use to establish his Pacific commercial empire
. [DOC] [TLE] American fur traders turn over Astoria, Oregon, to the British - Oct 23 ... [PAR] The town and fur trading post at Astoria were founded in 1811 at the behest of 
John ... beat out his British rivals and develop the Pacific Northwest fur trade for 
America. Unfortunately for Astor, the outbreak of the War of 1812 between the 
U.S. and .... The blasts, which took place at a Phillips Petroleum Company plant, 
were... [DOC] [TLE] Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest - UW...Lesson Six [PAR] Arrived in Pacific Northwest, 1811, and established post at Astoria. Seized by 
British naval vessel and sold to North West Company, 1812-13. ... Oregon Treaty 
of 1846 defined the boundary between the U.S. and Canada at the 49th ... being 
on hand during the War of 1812 to take over the Pacific Fur Company operations 
at... [DOC] [TLE] Oregon Blue Book: Oregon History: Land-based Fur Trade and ... [PAR] When he reached the ocean in 1811, he found an American fur trade post on the 
south ... Land-based trappers and traders would secure furs for his rich trade in 
Canton. ... learned of the outbreak of the War of 1812, they rightly feared a British 
naval ... took over the interests of the North West Company in the Oregon Country
. [DOC] [TLE] John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) - The Oregon Encyclopedia [PAR] expeditions representing his Pacific Fur Company, one by sea and one by land, 
... at Fort Astoria, the first American settlement in the Oregon Country and the ... 
several posts in the Columbia River Basin before the War of 1812 disrupted ... By 
terms of the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the war, Britain ended up with. [DOC] [TLE] Fort Astoria - Thefurtrapper.com [PAR] Many historians state Astor's attempt to establish a trading empire on the ... A 
wagon route over South Pass to the mouth of the Columbia River and the Oregon 
Country ... In the midst of the War of 1812, Americans had little concern with 
westward ... After establishing the American Fur Company, Astor turned his 
attention to... [DOC] [TLE] John Jacob Astor: Wealthy Merchant and Fur Trader | HistoryNet [PAR] John Jacob Astor, the man most closely associated with the American fur trade 
and ... The beaver became a factor of empire, and battles were fought and 
treaties ... Astor himself often left the shop in his wife's care

Question: During the War of 1812 the British took over his American Fur Company post in the Oregon Country
Answer: (John Jacob) Astor