USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -In 1664, when Charles resolved to enforce England’s claim to New Netherland, Richard Nicoll was appointed to command the English fleet, and named governor of the future colony of New York.

Detailed explanation-3: -Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam, the capital of New Netherland, to an English naval squadron under Colonel Richard Nicolls. Stuyvesant had hoped to resist the English, but he was an unpopular ruler, and his Dutch subjects refused to rally around him.

Detailed explanation-5: -The city surrendered to the British, who then proceeded to not only take over New Amsterdam but all of New Netherland which included all of New York State and parts of New England and New Jersey. It would be unfair not to look at the positive aspects of Stuyvesant’s eighteen year rule over the colony of New Amsterdam.