In 1809 the Netherlands faced off the British Empire in a bid to have her release her strangehold of dominance in the Americas. The upshot of the Netherlands being the defeated party spelled reparations: mainly relinguishing New Netherlands to the British; which immediately became renamed to New York.
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The Dutch
The Duke of York was sent by his brother, King Charles II of England, to defeat the Dutch, and conquer the region that would become the colony of New York.
because they think James, duke of york will do good things the Stuyvesant, the dutch government
New York
The Dutch colony of New Amsterdam became the English colony of New York.
The Dutch
The Dutch
James, the Duke of York received control of New Netherlands in 1664 from the Dutch and renamed the colony New York. New York City was originally named New Amsterdam while it was controlled by the Dutch.
the Dutch
The Dutch colony became New York. It is named after the kings brother the Duke of York.
The Duke of York was sent by his brother, King Charles II of England, to defeat the Dutch, and conquer the region that would become the colony of New York.
because they think James, duke of york will do good things the Stuyvesant, the dutch government
because they think James, duke of york will do good things the Stuyvesant, the dutch government
While it was under Dutch control, the colony was called New Netherlands. Under British control, it was rebranded as the Province of New York.
New York
The new Netherlands was a dutch colony from 1614 until 1667. In that time period the Netherlands where moving many ships around the world as England also did but at some point the king of England, Charles the second was grown tired of the dutch interfering with the shipping business so he send ships to take over the dutch colony of New Netherlands, the leader of the colony could not convince the people of the colony to fight against England and the colony was taken over without any bloodshed the city of New Amsterdam (what is now known as new york) was renamed to New york to onner the duke of New York who would become known as king James the second he became king of England after Charles the second.
England, but before England took control the Dutch had it. At the time it was called New Amsterdan.