In September 1664, New Amsterdam became New York. Here's the story of how Peter Stuyvesant lost the Dutch colony to the British marking the end of an era.

In 1664, New Amsterdam was overtaken by the British, who eventually demolished the wall and replaced it with a street (aptly named Wall Street). The specifics of the claims varied from post to post.

I wanted to see old New York, the earliest New York, the Lenni Lenape land of Mannahatta (“island of many hills”), the 1624 ...

New Amsterdam eventually grew up and put into place health codes and zoning laws. It came to an end on September 8, 1664 , when Stuyvesant surrendered the city to the English, who rechristened the ...

Before New York was New York, it was New Amsterdam: a Dutch settlement named for the canal-filled city back home. This year marks the 400th anniversary of the settlement, which was established in ...

In 1664 the English seized New Netherland, including the town of New Amsterdam. They renamed the colony New York. At the time there were roughly 500 Dutch-speaking blacks in the colony.

Another historic trade. But the wall wasn’t enough to protect the Dutch from their own forced takeover: In August 1664, British soldiers stormed New Amsterdam; after its Dutch governor, Peter ...

They established the colony of New Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan. When the British took control of the area in 1664, they renamed it New York, and it became one of the original 13 colonies.

Leading the antisemitic discrimination against the Jews in New Amsterdam was Stuyvesant, who was strongly committed to the supremacy of the Dutch Reformed Church, determined to promote morality ...

New Amsterdam was a Dutch settlement until it was ... their homeland and the beginning of the Dutch influence that’s still present today—long after the British conquered New Amsterdam in 1664.