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Sint Maarten. Page 2. the old NY connection...
In 1644 Dutch Admiral
Peter Stuyvesandt lost his leg here at Cay Bay in a battle for the island
with the Spanish. In 1647, with wooden leg, he became Director General
of New Netherlands, now NY & NJ. In 1664 he surrendered his city,
New Amsterdam, to the British who renamed it in honour of the Duke of
York, the English King's brother.
Pegleg Pete retired to his farm, "bouwerij", in Lower Manhattan,
still known as the Bowery. Between 1631 & 1816 our island changed
nationality 16 times, most times after the durable 1648 Treaty
of Concordia divided the island between Dutch & French. (In 1998 the
island quietly celebrated 350 years of peaceful co-existence.)
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