Robert Remini
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Sep
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Quite unlike the way Champlain treated the Iroquois Indians at about the same time,
on the shore of Lake Champlain.
Then, Hudson sailed down the river again and back to Europe.
He made one later voyage to America, this time under the English flag.
He was turned adrift by his men in Hudson's Bay and perished in the cold and ice.
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The Dutch Fur Traders Hudson's failure to find a new way to India made the Dutch India Company lose interest in American exploration.
But many Dutch merchants were greatly interested in Hudson's account of the Great River of the Mountain.
They thought they could make money from trading for furs with the Indians.
They sent many expeditions to Hudson's River and made a great deal of money.
Some of their captains explored the coast northward and southward as far as Boston Harbor and Delaware Bay.
Their principal trading posts were on Manhattan Island and near the site of Albany.
In 1614, some of the leading traders obtained from the Dutch government the sole right to trade between New France and Virginia.
They called this region New Netherland.
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The Founding of New Netherland
In 1621, the Dutch West India Company was founded.
Its first object was trade, but it also was directed to advance the peopling of the American lands claimed by the Dutch.
Colonists now came over.
They settled at New Amsterdam on the southern end of Manhattan Island and also on the western end of Long Island.
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