The colony was originally conceived by the Dutch West India Company (GWC) in 1621 to capitalize on the North American fur trade. Settlement initially stalled ... Conquest of New Netherland · Directors of New Netherland · Reconquest of New...

10 июл. 2022 г. · The new nation was the first fully independent Dutch state, and by 1609 was a nation of about 3.5 million people.

Though the colony officially existed only between 1609 and 1674, the descendants of the original settlers played a prominent role in colonial America. New ...

On October 11, 1614, merchants from the cities of Amsterdam and Hoorn formed The New Netherland Company receiving a three-year monopoly for fur trading in the ...

In 1609, after many years of fighting, Spain and the Dutch Republic agreed to a twelve-year truce. That same year, Henry Hudson sailed to North America on his ...

9 февр. 2010 г. · The colony of New Netherland was established by the Dutch West India Company in 1624 and grew to encompass all of present-day New York City ...

This is the earliest view of New Amsterdam, at the southern tip of Manhattan Island, first settled in 1625. ... O'Callaghan, Documentary History of the State of ...

New Netherlands were surrendered, September 29, 1664. (Gilder Lehrman Collection) The Dutch colonization of New Netherland (which included parts of present-day ...

Below are several quotes culled from the pages of Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664, a compilation of accounts of the newly discovered land.