Anita Anand
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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So you've got this situation where the Dutch just maintain this hold on this very lucrative trade.
Years passed.
Amsterdam gets richer and richer.
The East India Company, the Dutch East India Company, the richest corporation on earth.
Everybody's desperate to get their hands on the nutmeg.
And then you have sort of 1664, a swapsies happens.
of sorts.
Now, this is really very, very tantalizing.
Just tell us a little bit about, first of all, New Amsterdam because that's what we want to know about and that sort of muscle flex of having a New Amsterdam somewhere where a lot of people might actually have been.
His initials burned into people's chests.
D-O-Y, Duke of York.
Yes.
And that's how it happened, ladies and gentlemen.
I love stories like that.
Isn't it amazing, though?
I had the theme tune going through my head of New Amsterdam.
I want to have no part of it.
New Amsterdam.
And then suddenly you've got the new iteration, New York.
Nobody will be able to get enough of it.