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  2. Conquest of New Netherland - Wikipedia

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    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 led by the HMS Guinea , [ 6 ] and about three hundred soldiers.

  3. List of the oldest newspapers - Wikipedia

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    (North China Daily News) English Shanghai: China A weekly newspaper at first, it began daily publication in 1864 under the new name North China Daily News. Ceased publication in 1951. 1852 Java-Bode: Dutch Batavia Dutch East Indies Ceased publication in 1957. 1853 [109] Chinese serial: Chinese Victoria City: Hong Kong

  4. List of free daily newspapers - Wikipedia

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    Palo Alto Daily News - Palo Alto; while its website is continuously updated, the physical paper was cut back to a weekly in 2015; Palo Alto Daily Post - Palo Alto; successor to the Daily News; San Francisco Examiner - San Francisco As of March 2020, this paper is only published three times a week—on Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday.

  5. New Amsterdam - Wikipedia

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    By 1655, the population of New Netherland had grown to 9000 Dutch people, with 1,500 living in New Amsterdam. By 1664, the population of New Netherland had risen to almost 9,000 people, 2,500 of whom lived in New Amsterdam, 1,000 lived near Fort Orange, and the remainder in other towns and villages. [2] [4]

  6. New Netherland - Wikipedia

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    The Story of New Netherland. (1909) online; Jacobs, Jaap. The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America (2nd ed. Cornell U.P. 2009) 320pp; scholarly history to 1674 online 1st edition Archived May 25, 2017, at the Wayback Machine; Jacobs, Jaap, L. H. Roper, eds. The Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley.

  7. Hans Hansen Bergen - Wikipedia

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    Hans Hansen Bergen (c. 1610 – 30 May 1654) was one of the earliest settlers of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, and one of the few from Scandinavia.He was a native of Bergen, Norway.

  8. New Netherland settlements - Wikipedia

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    New Netherland (Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch) was the 17th century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the northeastern coast of North America. The claimed territory was the land from the Delmarva Peninsula to southern Cape Cod .

  9. Reconquest of New Netherland - Wikipedia

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    City of New Orange in 1673. The Dutch commanders swiftly began to consolidate their conquest by sending out commissions to outlying settlements to demand submission to the new regime, and set up new local governments under the control of the new governor-general they appointed to rule the colony as the new Director of New Netherland. This was ...