Francis Lovelace
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Francis Lovelace was an English Royalist and the second Governor of New York colony.
Francis Lovelace
Reconquest of New Netherland
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On 9 August 1673, during the Third Anglo-Dutch War a combined Dutch fleet commanded by Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest of the Admiralty of Zeeland and Jacob Binckes of the Admiralty of Amsterdam recapt
Francis Lovelace
…Stadt Huys Block and rediscovered by archeologists in 1979–1980. Despite his defensive preparations, his administration was terminated by the temporary recapture of the colony by the Dutch in 1673 when, for a brief period the Dutch Admiral Cornelis Evertsen the youngest seized New York City, to little opposition…
New Amsterdam retaken by the Netherlanders on 24 Aug 1673