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Title: A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Cincinnati, Philadelphia (etc.) Jones brothers & company San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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a point on the western shore five miles below themouth of the Brandy wine. On the present site of New Castle, Fort Cas-imir was built and garrisoned with Dutch soldiers. This act wasequivalent to a declaration of war. The Swedish settlement of Christianawas almost in sight of the hostile fortress, and a conflict could hardly beavoided. Rising, the governor of the Swedes, looked on quietly untilFort Casimir was completed, then captured the place by stratagem, over-powered the garrison and hoisted the flag of Sweden. It was a short-lived triumph. The West India Company weresecretly pleased that the Swedes had committed an act of open violence.Orders were at once issued to Stuyvesant to visit the Swedish colonistswith vengeance, and to compel their submission or drive them from theDelaware. In September of 1655 the orders of the company were car-ried out to the letter. The old governor put himself at the head of morethan six hundred troops—a number almost equal to the entire population
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NEW YORK.—ADMINISTRATION OF STU YVES ANT. 169 of New Sweden—and sailed to Delaware Bay. Resistance was hopeless.The Dutch forces were landed at New Castle, and the Swedes gave way.Before the 25th of the month every fort belonging to the colony had beenforced to capitulate. Governor Rising was captured, but was treated withgreat respect. Honorable terms were granted, to all, and in a few daysthe authority of New Netherland was established throughout the country.Except a few turbulent spirits who removed to Maryland and Virginia,the submission was universal. After an existence of less than eighteenyears, the little State of New Sweden had ceased to be. The Americanpossessions and territorial claims of France, England, Holland, Swedenand Spain will be best understood from an examination of the accom-panying map, drawn for the year 1655. How hardly can the nature of savages be restrained! While Gov-ernor Stuyvesant was absent on his expedition against the Swedes, theAlgonquin tribes r
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