Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam
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- PETER STUYVESANT, THE LAST DUTCH GOVERNOR OF NEW AMSTERDAM
- PREFACE
- JOHN S. C. ABBOTT.
- CONTENTS.
- PETER STUYVESANT.
- CHAPTER I.—DISCOVERY OF THE HUDSON RIVER.
- CHAPTER II.—THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY.
- CHAPTER III.—THE COMMENCEMENT OF COLONISATION.
- CHAPTER IV.—THE ADMINISTRATION OF VAN TWILLER.
- CHAPTER V.—WAR AND ITS DEVASTATIONS.
- CHAPTER VI.—GOVERNOR STUYVESANT.
- CHAPTER VII.—WAR BETWEEN ENGLAND AND HOLLAND.
- CHAPTER VIII.—ANOTHER INDIAN WAR.
- CHAPTER IX.—AN ENERGETIC ADMINISTRATION.
- CHAPTER X.—THE ESOPUS WAR.
- CHAPTER XI.—THE DISASTROUS YEAR.
- CHAPTER XII.—ENCROACHMENTS OF THE ENGLISH.
- CHAPTER XIII.—HOSTILE MEASURES COMMENCED.
- CHAPTER XIV.—THE CAPTURE OF NEW AMSTERDAM.
- CHAPTER XV.—THE FINAL SURRENDER.
- CHAPTER XVI.—THE OLDEN TIME.
- THE END.
- NOTES:
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