Conquest of New Netherland

Conquest of New Netherland
	Part of the Second Anglo-Dutch War
	; "The Dutch Surrender New Amsterdam" by Henry Alexander Ogden
Date	May 25, 1664 – October 4, 1664
Location	New Amsterdam, New Netherland
Result	English victory Surrender of New Netherland; Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War;
Belligerents
England	Dutch Republic
Commanders and leaders
Richard Nicolls ; Samuel Maverick	Peter Stuyvesant ; Johannes de Decker
Strength
4 warships	Unknown
Casualties and losses
None	3 killed ; 10 wounded

The conquest of New Netherland occurred in 1664 as an English expedition led by Richard Nicolls that arrived in New York Harbor effected a peaceful capture of New Amsterdam, Fort Amsterdam and the Articles of Surrender of New Netherland were agreed. The conquest was mostly peaceful in the rest of the colony as well, except for some fighting in New Amstel.^[1]

^ Lee, Guy Carleton; Thorpe, Francis Newton (1904). "English Conquest of New Netherland, 1655-1664". The History of North America. Vol. 4. pp. 117–146.