they seized control of new Amsterdam because it was separating their north American empire. they had New England to the north and the middle and sourhern colonies to the south.
Not only that but New York has a great trading port that England wanted
They were out numbered by the English and decided the fight wasn't worth the cost.
... But the two countries continue to fight for two more years on the high seas before they reach an agreement, in which they trade the small island of Run in the Indies for Manhattan. The island was a long disputed property and English hold out in the Indies, since it was supposed to yield a fortune in spices.
Both the French and the English colonies wanted to control the fur trade.
IF you want to know the colony it belonged to it was the middle colony or so called the bread basket colinies
You would want to bring corn mills, food, clothes.
Peter Stuyvesant
to provide a refugefor catholics
it was harbor
They were a colony because they came and built New Amsterdam well before the English came to Plymouth. The English didn't want to control them, but wanted the location. New Amsterdam had a good natural port and good resources and THAT is what they were after from the Dutch.
To take advantage of Peter Minuit
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The Dutch did not have a lot of people in it's colony so the British wanted to invade to have New York for it's own.
The natural port is a main reason why they wanted it. Good land for farming was also another reason.
The transport 1,100 to 1,200 people to Barbados or Jamaica was the reason why England sent the Hercules and the America to Suriname in 1675. The English settled Suriname in 1650. But in 1674 the Dutch gained control of the colony. There were 120 English families living in Suriname at that time. Eighty of those families didn't want to remain there under Dutch control. So England sent the two ships to move those families elsewhere in the Caribbean.
The English did not want to compete with the Dutch in the colonies.
The English did not want to compete with the Dutch in the colonies.
Because the Netherlands were very wealthy, there was not a lot of incentive for Dutch settlers to come to the New World. As a result, the inhabitants of the colony tended to be English. When the British decided to claim New Netherlands, The Duke of York launched a war flotilla to capture it. There simply weren't enough Dutch citizens who were willing to fight to defend the colony, so it was taken without any bloodshed.
cause the were stupid
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