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The fall of New Amsterdam |
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As one Indian war rumbled on - the Iroquois-Susquehannock War - and another started up - a fresh Mohawk-Mahican war - Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant was forced to surrender New Amsterdam to the British on 8 September 1664 following an attack by a British fleet. With the Dutch colony area of New Netherland having fallen with it, the British soon renamed New Amsterdam, choosing New York - now New York City (oil on canvas by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1754). |
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