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New Sweden (Swedish: Nya Sverige) was a colony of the Swedish Empire between 1638 and 1655 along the lower reaches of the Delaware River in what is now Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Established during the Thirty Years' War when Sweden was a great power, New Sweden formed part of the Swedish efforts to colonize the Americas.
Ireland, Sweden and the Great European Migration, 1815–1914. McGill-Queens University Press. Åkerman, Sune (1976). "Theories and Methods of Migration Research"". In Runblom and Norman (ed.). From Sweden to America. pp. 19– 75. American FactFinder, United States Census, 2000. Consulted 30 June 2007. Barton, H. Arnold (1994).
The Swedish government protested the annexation of New Sweden but did not attempt to regain the colony. [8] New Sweden was incorporated into New Netherland and reorganized into three districts: New Amstel (present-day New Castle, Delaware), Hoornkill (present-day Lewes, Delaware), and Christina (present-day Wilmington, Delaware). [4]
The colony would expand to later include nearly two dozen towns and seven forts before the Dutch conquered New Sweden in 1655. Just a few years later the English conquered New Netherland in 1664. Swedish settlers found themselves under English rule, a fact many Swedes resented as the new English authorities enacted far stricter land and deed ...
The new improvements to Sweden's military order even pervaded the state by fueling fundamental changes in the economy. [13] The military reforms – among which tight discipline [ 12 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] was one of the prevailing principles – brought the Swedish military to the highest levels of military readiness and were to become the standard ...
Two former Ohio Supreme Court justices say voter-approved changes to curb partisan gerrymandering failed because of one simple reason: self-serving politicians.
Signaling what they called a "new era," leaders of Finland and Sweden said Sunday that they will seek membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization within days, a move almost certain to ...
Swedish Empire including overseas territories. The Swedish Empire or the Age of Greatness (Swedish: stormaktstiden) [1] was the period in Swedish history spanning much of the 17th and early 18th centuries during which Sweden became a European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region.