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  2. Henry Hudson - Wikipedia

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    Along with Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait in Canada, many other topographical features and landmarks are named for Hudson. The Hudson River in New York and New Jersey is named after him, as are Hudson County, New Jersey, the Henry Hudson Bridge, the Henry Hudson Parkway, and the city of Hudson, New York. [41]

  3. Giovanni da Verrazzano - Wikipedia

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    He then sailed along Long Island and entered Narragansett Bay, where he received a delegation of Wampanoag and Narragansett people. The words "Norman villa" are found on the 1527 map by Visconte Maggiolo identifying the site. The historian Samuel Eliot Morison writes that "this occurs at Angouleme (New York) rather than Refugio (Newport). It ...

  4. History of the Hudson River - Wikipedia

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    In 1524, Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano visited the bay of New York, in service of Francis I of France. [4] On his voyage, Verrazzano sailed north along the Atlantic seaboard, starting in the Carolinas. Verrazzano sailed all the way to New York Harbor, which he thought was the mouth of a major river.

  5. History of Long Island - Wikipedia

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    This was chiefly the result of the Duke of York's grudge against Connecticut, as New Haven had hidden three of the judges who sentenced the Duke's father King Charles I to death in 1649. Long Island contained three of the original twelve counties of the English Province of New York organized in 1683: Kings, Queens, and Suffolk. At that time ...

  6. Pierre-Esprit Radisson - Wikipedia

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    Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636/1640–1710) was a French coureur des bois and explorer in New France.He is often linked to his brother-in-law Médard des Groseilliers.The decision of Radisson and Groseilliers to enter the English service led to the formation of the Hudson's Bay Company.

  7. History of New York City - Wikipedia

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    The Almanac of New York City (2008) Jaffe, Steven H. New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham (2012) Excerpt and text search; Kessner, Thomas. Fiorello H. LaGuardia and the Making of Modern New York (1989) the most detailed standard scholarly biography online; Lankevich, George J. New York City: A Short History (2002)

  8. History of New York (state) - Wikipedia

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    In 1524, Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian explorer in the service of the French crown, explored the Atlantic coast of North America between the Carolinas and Newfoundland, including New York Harbor and Narragansett Bay. On April 17, 1524, Verrazzano entered New York Bay, by way of the Strait now called the Narrows. He described "a vast ...

  9. New York Harbor - Wikipedia

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    New York Harbor [1] [2] [3] is a bay that covers all of the Upper Bay and an extremely small portion of the Lower Bay. It is at the mouth of the Hudson River where it empties into New York/New Jersey Bight near the East River tidal estuary , and then into the Atlantic Ocean on the East Coast of the United States .