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(Explorer) Robert Gray was an American merchant sea captain celebrated for his groundbreaking work in the maritime fur trade on the northern Pacific coast of North America. He achieved the first American circumnavigation of the world in 1790 and is renowned for discovering and naming the Columbia River in 1792. Although his primary focus was commanding merchant ships in the Atlantic, Gray also had plans for a voyage to the Northwest Coast. He faced capture by French privateers during the Franco-American Quasi-War and went on to lead an American privateer.
