because they did not like them and they were on the English side
Peter Stuyvesent was the 7th governor of New Netherland.
Peter Stuyvesent
The New Netherland governor that refused to surrender to England was Peter Stuyvesant. He refused to surrender because of an issue over territorial rights between the Dutch and English settlements in the New World.
Peter Stuyvesant
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.
Peter Stuyvesant was the governor of New Netherland who refused to surrender to England. The English took New Netherland without firing a shot. The Dutch West India Company established a fur-trading empire in the region.
Peter Stuyvesant [c. 1612 - August 1672] was the Dutch governor who surrendered to the English in 1664. He did so in his capacity as Director-General of the Colony of New Netherland, at the future New York. His surrender of the Dutch colony to English control was demanded on August 30, 1664. He signed the necessary treaty on September 9.Note that Peter Stuyvesant was the governor (Director General, actually) of New Netherland, not New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam was a colony in the greater New Netherland settlement. There was never a governor (or Director General) of New Amsterdam.
dutch
He was Dutch.
John Peter Zinger
Dutch
Peter Stuyvesant is a very famous governor of New York and he was dutch