Dutch Atlantic connections, 1680-1800
... Dutch Republic. This view is summed up by the doyen of Dutch economic history, Jan de Vries, who remarked that the history of the Dutch in the Atlantic was “filled with frustration and disappointment, never resulting in a territorial, political or cultural presence that answered to the grand visions ...
... Dutch Republic. This view is summed up by the doyen of Dutch economic history, Jan de Vries, who remarked that the history of the Dutch in the Atlantic was “filled with frustration and disappointment, never resulting in a territorial, political or cultural presence that answered to the grand visions ...
Social Studies Unit 2 – Review Sheet The first European explorers
... colonel Richard Nicolls. The Dutch colonists did not want to fight. They were outnumbered. They also knew that England had one of the most powerful navies in the world, and so they definitely felt threatened by them. The Dutch were also not so happy with their leader, Stuyvesant. They felt many of h ...
... colonel Richard Nicolls. The Dutch colonists did not want to fight. They were outnumbered. They also knew that England had one of the most powerful navies in the world, and so they definitely felt threatened by them. The Dutch were also not so happy with their leader, Stuyvesant. They felt many of h ...
New Amsterdam
New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw-Amsterdam) was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island, which served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland territory. The trading post became a settlement outside of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island in the New Netherland in 1614. Situated on the strategic, fortifiable southern tip of the island of Manhattan, the fort was meant to defend the Dutch West India Company's fur trade operations in the North River (Hudson River). It became a provincial extension of the Dutch Republic as of 1624 and was designated the capital of the province in 1625.New Amsterdam was renamed New York on September 8, 1664, in honor of the then Duke of York (later James II of England), in whose name the English had captured it. In 1667 the Dutch gave up their claim to the town and the rest of the colony, in exchange for control of the Spice Islands.