Conquest of New Netherland
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The conquest of New Netherland occurred in 1664 as an English expedition led by Richard Nicolls that arrived in New York Harbor effected a peaceful capture of New Amsterdam and Fort Amsterdam, and the
"The Fall of New Amsterdam" by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
A 1664 illustration of New Netherland
Landing of the English at New Amsterdam 1664
The Articles of Capitulation on the Reduction of New Netherland was a document of surrender signed on September 29, 1664, handing control of the Dutch Republic's colonial province New Netherland to th
Conquest of New Netherland
…an English expedition led by Richard Nicolls that arrived in New York Harbor effected a peaceful capture of New Amsterdam and Fort Amsterdam, and the Articles of Surrender of New Netherland were agreed. The conquest was mostly peaceful in the rest of the colony as well, except for some fighting in New Amstel. The commercial rivalry between…
Articles about the transfer of New Netherland on the 27th of August, Old Style, Anno 1664
The capitulation of Peter Stuyvesant in New Amsterdam (by Charles Hemstreet)