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In September 1609, Henry Hudson, accompanied by around 20 sailors, navigated the Halve Maen into present-day New York Harbor. Tasked by the Dutch East India Company to discover a route to Asia, Hudson
New Amsterdam and its people; under Dutch and early English rule
The Fall of New Amsterdam
The capitulation of Peter Stuyvesant in New Amsterdam (by Charles Hemstreet)
Image of Nieuw Amsterdam made in 1664, the year that it was surrendered to English forces under Richard Nicolls
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
Articles about the transfer of New Netherland on the 27th of August, Old Style, Anno 1664
