THE DUTCH HANDED NEW AMSTERDAM OVER TO THE BRITISH WHEN CHARLES...

1663, the Dutch handed New Amsterdam over to the British when Charles II declared that all lands

between the Delaware and Connecticut Rivers belonged to his brother James, the Duke of York. The Dutch,

totally unprepared for war, immediately surrendered (signed the Anglo-Dutch Treaty) when the English

feet entered the harbor to take the city. New Amsterdam, henceforth, became New York.