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
New Amsterdam retaken by the Netherlanders on 24 Aug 1673
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
Reconquest of New Netherland
…replacement of governor Colve by governor Edmund Andros on 10 November 1674 (N.S.) Before the Second Anglo-Dutch War had even started an English fleet took over the colony New Netherland of the Dutch West India Company in 1664 in a bloodless coup in the name of the Duke of York. The colony was renamed New York…
"The Fall of New Amsterdam" by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
A 1664 illustration of New Netherland
Landing of the English at New Amsterdam 1664