USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On August 27, 1664, four English warships arrived in New Amsterdam to claim the colony under the orders of James, Duke of York. New Amsterdam had limited defenses, ammunition and manpower, so Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant was forced to surrender without a shot in September.

Detailed explanation-2: -During the War of 1812, American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit and his army to the British without a fight. Hull, a 59-year-old veteran of the American Revolution, had lost hope of defending the settlement after seeing the large English and Indian force gathering outside Detroit’s walls.

Detailed explanation-3: -Petrus Stuyvesant is best known as New Netherland’s longest, most influential, and last Dutch governor, having served until the English overthrew the colony’s Dutch administration and renamed it New York in 1664. Stuyvesant helped make New Amsterdam more orderly and economically successful than it had ever been.

Detailed explanation-4: -Peter Stuyvesant, the Director-General of New Netherland, tried to rally the people of New Amsterdam to fight, but he soon realized they preferred to surrender peacefully. Stuyvesant set up a meeting between the citizens of New Amsterdam and the English representatives so that they could negotiate terms of surrender.

Detailed explanation-5: -Realizing that control of the mouth of the river, controlled the settlement’s future, on September 24, 1664 that vice-director of New Netherland Johannes de Montagne surrendered the fort to the English, and Colonel George Cartwright took command.