Peter Stuyvesant: New Amsterdam and the Origins of New YorkThe Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, 1 aug 2000 - 112 pagina's British-born Thomas Paine came to Philadelphia in 1774. He clearly heard the colonists cries for liberty. They stirred his own political philosophy and ideals for freedom. He committed the powerful mixture to print with revolutionary pamphlets such as Common Sense. Paine helped set the stage for the Declaration of Independence and profoundly influenced the course of our nation s history and ideology. |
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CONTENTS | 5 |
Masts on the Horizon | 13 |
Cultures in Contact | 25 |
The Story of the TwentyFour | 35 |
The Making of a Leader | 44 |
New Netherlands New Leader | 53 |
Stuyvesant Takes Control | 64 |
Threats of Takeover | 73 |
Stuyvesant Continues to Battle | 82 |
The Dutch Legacy | 95 |
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Amsterdam Chamber Asia attack Balthazar beaver became Bouwery British Broadway brought Casimir Collection colonists colony's Company's council of nine created Crieckenbeeck Cromwell Curaçao deed Delaware Donck Dutch colony Dutch Reformed Dutch settlers Dutch West India employees English colony English ships Europe European farm Fort Casimir guilders harbor Hudson Indians Jews Johan Rising Judith Kieft land leader Lenape letter lived located Long Island Mahican Manhattan Island Melyn and Kuyter Navigation Act Netherland New-York Historical North America Ocean painting Peter Minuit Peter Stuyvesant Peter Stuyvesant's present-day Albany prosperity purchase of Manhattan River route rule sail Schagen Second Anglo-Dutch War sent shows signed sixty guilders Spain Spanish Armada story streets Stuyvesant arrived Stuyvesant began Stuyvesant heard Stuyvesant knew Stuyvesant's arrival surrender Sweden Swedish tavern threat town trade Treaty of Hartford truce twenty-four dollars Verhulst wampum West India Company Weststellingwerf Willem Willem Kieft Willem Verhulst windmill York City