Peter Stuyvesant

Peter Stuyvesant

John Stevens Cabot Abbott, american historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer (1805-1877)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- PREFACE

-03- DISCOVERY OF THE HUDSON RIVER

-04- THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY

-05- THE COMMENCEMENT OF COLONISATION

-06- THE ADMINISTRATION OF VAN TWILLER

-07- WAR AND ITS DEVASTATIONS

-08- GOVERNOR STUYVESANT

-09- WAR BETWEEN ENGLAND AND HOLLAND

-10- ANOTHER INDIAN WAR

-11- AN ENERGETIC ADMINISTRATION.

-12- THE ESOPUS WAR

-13- THE DISASTROUS YEAR.

-14- ENCROACHMENTS OF THE ENGLISH

-15- HOSTILE MEASURES COMMENCED

-16- THE CAPTURE OF NEW AMSTERDAM

-17- THE FINAL SURRENDER

-18- THE OLDEN TIME

-19- NOTES