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The real reason is because at this time the Americas was just land taken over by native Americans and the Europeans came in and "stole" the land from them through the course of many wars.

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The british and new amaterdam had a war and the british fired one shot and they surrendered

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the British exchanged new Amsterdam for Suriname, ending the third Angelo-dutch war (treaty of westminister 1674)

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The british were able to take New york by the Patriots were unprepared and the British had more troops

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The Dutch refused to fight the English.

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How did the dutch gain control of most of the Indian ocean trade?

They had war!


How did the English gain control of the dutch?

because white men won a war.


How did the dutch gain control of much of the Indian Ocean?

by seized both port of Malacca and Valuable Spice Islands from Portugal.


How did the dutch gain control of much of the ocean trade?

by seized both port of Malacca and Valuable Spice Islands from Portugal.


How did the dutch gain control of much of the Indian trade?

by seized both port of Malacca and Valuable Spice Islands from Portugal.


How did the Dutch gain control much of the Indian Ocean trade?

by seized both port of Malacca and Valuable Spice Islands from Portugal.


How did the dutch gain control of much the Indian Ocean trade?

by seized both port of Malacca and Valuable Spice Islands from Portugal.


Portugal often had to fight to gain control of spice-growing regions?

The moors vasco de gama discovered the spice after traveling to India


How did grenada gain independence from the dutch?

First off, Grenada was captured by Dutch Privateers. They were ruthless and would have destroyed Grenada if it hadn't been for French man-of-war. The battle ship recaptured the island and the privateers ran away.


How did England gain control of new Amsterdam?

They simply took with military force. On August 27, 1664, four English frigates sailed into New Amsterdam Harbor and demanded the surrender of the Dutch colony. The Dutch governor, Peter Stuyvesant, surrendered.


How do you gain control in a dictatorship?

you can gain control in a dictatorship by becoming president


Who did the Dutch gain independence from 1830?

They didn't. In 1930, nothing really happened to the Dutch.If you mean the 1940s, the Dutch lost their independence, since they were invaded by Germany.If you mean the 1830s, the Dutch didn't gain independence, Belgium did. And they gained it from the Netherlands.