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