A view of New Amsterdam, a Dutch colony in America. It later became New York City.
Peter Stuyvesant, protesting vehemently against the signing of a treaty of surrender to the English
Peter Struyvesant was the last Dutch governor of the New Netherlands colony.
Peter Stuyvesant decides to surrender New Netherland to the English, 1664
Governor Stuyvesant tearing up the letter demanding the surrender of New Amsterdam.