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Articles about the transfer of New Netherland on the 27th of August, Old Style, Anno 1664. The Articles of Capitulation on the Reduction of New Netherland was a document of surrender signed on September 29, 1664 handing control of the Dutch Republic's colonial province New Netherland to the Kingdom of England.
A group of prominent merchants then met at Stuyvesant Farm with Nicholls' officers to draft Articles of Capitulation. [9] The Dutch colonists were guaranteed in the possession of their property rights, their laws of inheritance, and the enjoyment of religious freedom. Article 2 specified that all "publick houses" would remain open. [7]
He was one of the six signers of the articles of capitulation of New Amsterdam to the English on September 6, 1664. [1] De Decker was sent to work as a lawyer for Peter Stuyvesant in New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company (WIC) in 1654. He held various top political positions and in 1657 was appointed Comptroller.
On 6 September 1664, Stuyvesant sent Johannes de Decker, a lawyer for the West India Company, and five others to sign the Articles of Capitulation. [38] Nicolls was declared governor, and the city was renamed New York. Stuyvesant obtained civil rights and freedom of religion in the Articles of Capitulation. [39]
The capitulation of Peter Stuyvesant in New Amsterdam (by Charles Hemstreet) Surrendering British troops held at gunpoint by Japanese infantry in the Battle of Singapore. Capitulation ( Latin : capitulum , a little head or division; capitulare , to treat upon terms) is an agreement in time of war for the surrender to a hostile armed force of a ...
The German Confederation came to an end when Prussia defeated Austria in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. By Article II of the Preliminary Peace of Nikolsburg of 26 July 1866, the Emperor of Austria expressly recognised the dissolution of the Confederation. [16] The Peace of Prague of 23 August 1866 confirmed the dissolution in Article IV. [17]
The Weimar Constitution of 1919. Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Constitution of the German Reich .
The borders of military occupied Germany. There should be a constitutional convention (German: Verfassunggebende Versammlung, literally, "Constituent Assembly") before September 1, 1948, to draft a constitution shaping a federal form of government, while maintaining the rights of people and the participating states.