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In 1664, the English took over New Amsterdam and renamed it New York after the Duke of York (later James II & VII). [5] After the Second Anglo-Dutch War of 1665–67, England and the United Provinces of the Netherlands agreed to the status quo in the Treaty of Breda.
A 1664 illustration of New Netherland Landing of the English at New Amsterdam 1664. In March 1664, Charles granted American territory between the Delaware and Connecticut rivers to James. On May 25, 1664 Colonel Richard Nicolls set out from Portsmouth with four warships and about three hundred soldiers.
(c. 1629) Fort Orange and Castle Island Manatus Map (c. 1639) Manhattan situated on the North Rivier (c. 1650) (1685 reprint) New Netherland Nautical chart of Zwaanendael, 1639 (c. 1650) South River (1660) New Amsterdam
The next year Johan de Witt entered the Triple Alliance of 1668 with England, although reluctantly, as he considered Charles II an untrustworthy ally. [90] The Alliance between the Dutch Republic, England and Sweden was formed to mediate between France and Spain and forced Louis to temporarily abandon his plans for the conquest of the southern ...
The original city map, 1660 Redraft of the Castello Plan of New Amsterdam in 1660, redrawn in 1916 by John Wolcott Adams and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes. The Castello Plan – officially entitled Afbeeldinge van de Stadt Amsterdam in Nieuw Neederlandt (Dutch, "Picture of the City of Amsterdam in New Netherland") – is an early city map of what is now the Financial District of Lower Manhattan ...
On August 15, 1648, he appointed Jan DeWitt as the miller with a monthly salary of forty florins ($16.00). Stuyvesant instructed DeWitt to only grind grain with a certificate from the mill's comptroller. Two years later, a census conducted in New Amsterdam disclosed a population of one thousand inhabitants and 120 houses. The Fall of New Amsterdam
A year later saw the final conquest of the Dutch East Indies with the seizure of the whole of Java during a month-long campaign. With the signing of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814, Britain returned all those colonies to the new Kingdom of the Netherlands, with the exception of the Cape, Ceylon, and part of Dutch Guyana.
This meant that they continued in their official functions until 2 February 1665, the day on which they appointed their own successors. [19] This meant that in New Amsterdam, which was renamed New York City, and Albany, there was a transition period in which the old Dutch rules and customs were respected.