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Sep 2019
37m 32s

Dutch Manhattan - The Sheriff Comes to T...

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Just as it was becoming a New World success story, disaster came to New Amsterdam. Willem Kieft, the Dutch leader appointed by the West India Trading Company, declared war on local tribes, sending soldiers to slaughter them in their villages. The tribes responded with waves of death and destruction that would set the European settlers back decades in their d ... Show More
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