Trading post

[3] Trading posts have been established in a range of areas, including relatively remote ones, but most often near an ocean, a river, or another source of a natural resource.

[8] Manhattan and Singapore were both established as trading posts, by Dutchman Peter Minuit and Englishman Stamford Raffles respectively, and later developed into major settlements.

Goods specifically were vital to maintaining outposts in territories distant from Rome, such as northern Africa and western Asia.

Eric Jay Dolin's Fur, Fortune, and Empire provides a history of trading posts in North America.

When the Frenchmen learned this was the case, they feigned interest in guns available at the trading post, which when they got their hands on them, they turned back onto the servants.

One of the great feats achieved by the AFC was the establishment of a trading post in the native Blackfoot tribe's territory, located in modern-day Montana along the Rocky Mountains.

In order to erect a trading post in Blackfoot territory, the AFC needed a way to establish contact on their behalf.