USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -New Sweden, only Swedish colony in America, established by the New Sweden Company in March 1638 and captured by the Dutch in 1655.

Detailed explanation-2: -New Sweden (Swedish: Nya Sverige) was a Swedish colony on the Delaware River on the Atlantic coast of North America from 1638 to 1655. It was centered at Fort Christina, now in Wilmington, Delaware, and included parts of the present-day states of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Detailed explanation-3: -Having survived for some 17 years, New Sweden ceased to exist as an independent settlement. Sweden never again had an American colony after 1655, but its short-lived enterprise left a mark on the Delaware River Valley.

Detailed explanation-4: -Historical Society of Pennsylvania The colony of New Sweden extended along the western bank of the Delaware River between what became Philadelphia and New Castle, Delaware. This map of New Sweden is attributed to Swedish engineer Peter Lindestrom in 1654, a year before the colony was conquered by the Dutch.