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  2. History of New York City (prehistory–1664) - Wikipedia

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    Articles of Capitulation 1664 were drawn up, the Dutch West India Company's colors were struck on September 8, 1664, and the soldiers of the garrison marched to the East River for the trip home to the Netherlands. The date of 1664 appeared on New York City's corporate seal until 1975, when the date was changed to 1625 to reflect the year of ...

  3. New Amsterdam - Wikipedia

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    The fort gave The Battery (in present-day Manhattan) its name, the large street going from the fort past the wall became Broadway, and the city wall (right) gave Wall Street its name. New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw Amsterdam, pronounced [ˌniu.ɑmstərˈdɑm]) was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island ...

  4. Conquest of New Netherland - Wikipedia

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    3 killed. 10 wounded. 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, 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 ...

  5. Province of New York - Wikipedia

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    Province of New York. The Province of New York was a British proprietary colony and later a royal colony on the northeast coast of North America from 1664 to 1783. In 1664, the English under Charles II of England and his brother James, Duke of York raised a fleet to take the colony of New Netherland, then under the Directorship of Peter ...

  6. History of Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    European settlement began with the establishment of a trading post founded by colonists from the Dutch Republic in 1624 on Lower Manhattan; the post was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The territory and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother ...

  7. English overseas possessions - Wikipedia

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    The first English colonies overseas in America was made in the last quarter of the 16th century, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. [18] The 1580s saw the first attempt at permanent English settlements in North America, a generation before the Plantation of Ulster and occurring a little bit after the plantation of Munster. Soon there was an ...

  8. History of New York City (1665–1783) - Wikipedia

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    The history of New York City (1665–1783) began with the establishment of English rule over Dutch New Amsterdam and New Netherland. As the newly renamed City of New York and surrounding areas developed, there was a growing independent feeling among some, but the area was decidedly split in its loyalties. The site of modern New York City was ...

  9. 10 of the Oldest Cities in the US

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    When the English seized control of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, including Fort Orange, in 1664, they renamed the settlement Albany. Library of Congress. 4. Hampton, Virginia (1610) Hampton ...