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Featured Image: "Fort Astoria, 1813" by Gabriel Franchère [c. 1854], courtesy of Wikipedia
Intro and Outro Music: "Hull's Victory," as performed by David and Ginger Hildebrand, courtesy of the Colonial Music Institute at George Washington's Mount Vernon
