Company of adventurers - The stor of the Hudson's Bay Company

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"There has never been an enterprise like it: at its height, the Hudson's Bay Company's territory covered one-twelfth of the earth's surface and was ten times the size of the Holy Roman Empire. Its domain stretched from London across Canada, down to San Francisco, and across the Pacific to Hawaii. Its founders tamed a wilderness, and, in building the world's largest private commercial empire, they shaped the destiny of a continent."