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🔴 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 :youtube: **The Tiny Spice Island that the British Swapped For New York**

The History Chap

_“Would you swap a tiny island just 1 mile (or 3 kilometres) square for New York City? Crazy though that sounds, that is exactly what the British and the Dutch did in 1667.”_

#Video length: fourteen minutes and thirty-four seconds.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=iQfRhicrGc

#America #NewYork #NewAmsterdam #Netherlands #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons

Wall Street showing Trinity Church, New York City
"Wall Street, New York City. Wall Street derived its name from the wall built by Peter Stuyvesant in 1653 to defend New Amsterdam at this point. It is now the foremost financial center in the world and the most powerful banks and brokers have their offices here."--printed on verso. New York, N.Y.
digitalcollections.nypl.org/it
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