territory to found fifty colonies—
| fifty miles square—somewhat of
an exaggeration, to be sure, but
so incensed were the people that
they spared no pains to impress
his Excellency with the spirit of
their disapproval, whereupon the
=| Governor grew haughty and diffi-
4, dent and threatened to dissolve
his Council.

In 1665 Stuyvesant journeyed
to the Delaware with three ships
$e | and seven hundred men, and at-
SS | tacked and subdued the Swedish
S| colony which had settled there

junder the leadership of the dis-
Fe : ernie’ Minuit, who, when re-
oe ~——|| nounced by the Dutch, went over
aes to the Swedish powers with glow-
ing accounts of the desirability of

Cie a COIS

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