The formation of the Company was the brainchild of Dutch, German, and Swedish investors who convinced Axel Oxenstierna, Chancellor of the Realm and Queen ...

In 1637, Swedish, Dutch and German stockholders formed the New Sweden Company to trade for furs and tobacco in North America.

The main purpose of New Sweden's forts was to deter trade and settlement by its European rivals, especially the WIC, which asserted that New Netherland's limits ...

14 окт. 2024 г. · New Sweden, only Swedish colony in America, established by the New Sweden Company in March 1638 and captured by the Dutch in 1655.

FOUNDING OF NEW SWEDEN. Sweden's great King, Gustavus Adolphus, who raised his nation to a powerful position in Europe, was interested in the potential of ...

25 июл. 2017 г. · The vast majority of New Sweden's settlers were natives of Sweden and Finland, and they introduced Lutheran Christianity and several ...

Determined to profit from the New World like its rivals, Sweden sponsored an expedition, overseen by Peter Minuit, to settle the Delaware River.

New Sweden was a Swedish colony founded by Peter Minuit in 1638 along the Delaware River. The colony, centered on Fort Christina, thrived for a number of ...

On March 29, sachems -the Lenape name for their leaders - and Swedes signed an agreement by which the newcomers received land on the western side of the river.