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...

Five years earlier, Henry Hudson had sailed in the service of the Dutch East India Company into the mouth of the Hudson Bay, in search of the fabled Northwest ...

New Netherlanders, also known as the Holland Dutch, were residents of New Netherland, the seventeenth-century colonial outpost of the Republic of the Seven ...

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 ...

8 сент. 2014 г. · The Dutch Surrender New Netherland · 1. An Englishman gave the colony its start. · 2. The Dutch settled tiny Governors Island before Manhattan.

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 ...

By 1628, 270 European colonists and enslaved Africans brought over by the West India Company had built the town of New Amsterdam at the southern tip of ...

In September 1609, Henry Hudson and his crew, sailing for the Dutch East India Company, entered what is now New York Harbor and began traveling up the river ...

England's Charles II promised New Netherland to his brother, James, Duke of York. In May 1664 James dispatched Colonel Richard Nicolls [or Nichols] to seize the ...