Russell Shorto
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And the wall that they built at the northern boundary of their town became Wall Street.
So it's easy to kind of envision if you have a sense of the financial district.
So the Dutch are in their fort with their cannons pointed out in the harbor.
This English squadron sails into the harbor, four ships packed with sailors, soldiers, weapons, gunpowder, and they've got their cannons pointed at the Dutch.
And that sets up what is surely going to be this violent showdown between the
these two very prominent European powers that are vying for control of these kinds of lands all over the world.
What happened, though?
When I wrote the earlier book, what intrigued me and stayed in the back of my mind and had conversations with a lot of people who work in this field was, why didn't it get violent?
What did they do?
What happened?
Because the Dutch, the old story was,
that the Dutch just rolled over, they were weak.
But we now know, thanks to the aforementioned 12,000 pages of records, they had this very vibrant colony.
They were sending traders, were sending ships to South America, to the Caribbean.
They were tough people.
They didn't just roll over.
So what happened?
That's what this book is about.
It explores what is behind this showdown between the English and the Dutch.
The geography was really important.
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