Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, located beside the "North River" (the modern Hudson) within present-day Albany, New York,...
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Fort Nassau may refer to: Fort Nassau (North River), established 1614 in Albany, New York Fort Nassau (South River), established 1623 in Gloucester City...
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Fort Nassau was a factorij in New Netherland between 1624–1651 located at the mouth of Big Timber Creek at its confluence with the Delaware River. It...
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Look up Nassau in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nassau, derived from the town of Nassau on the Lahn River in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, gained historical...
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in Jamestown, Virginia, ensuring the colony's success. 1615 – Fort Nassau (North River) founded near Albany, New York. 1617–19 – Smallpox kills roughly...
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Hendrick Christiaensen (category Dutch explorers of North America)
and a moat eighteen feet wide. He named it Fort Nassau in honor of stadtholder Maurice of Nassau. The river, sometimes known as the Mauritius was also...
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along the northern bank of the Nassau River, continuing into the Nassau Sound. Still eastward and somewhat to the north is a large area of marshes and...
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coastline neighborhoods of the towns of North Hempstead (such as Great Neck and Port Washington) and Oyster Bay in Nassau County and Huntington in Suffolk County...
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Albany. Under direction of the Dutch, they built Fort Orange roughly 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Fort Nassau, which was prone to flooding, and about five miles...
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ashore, seizing Fort Montagu but not advancing upon the town, where the gunpowder was stored. Governor Montfort Browne had most of Nassau's gunpowder loaded...
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Fort Nassau to the Christina River, downstream from the Swedes' Fort Christina. The Dutch consolidated their forces at the rebuilt fort, renamed Fort...
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ISBN 978-1-60354-008-7. "Fort Nassau". Gloucester County, New Jersey History and Genealogy. Retrieved 2010-09-15. New River Notes Delaware Historical...
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new fortress which would replace Fort Nassau and Fort Beversreede. He began by purchasing all the land south of Fort Christina all the way to Bombay Hook...
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Fortifications of New Netherland (redirect from Forts of New Netherland)
Wiltwyck. Fort Nassau (1614), on the North River (at Albany, New York), lost to floods Fort Orange (1624), Castle Island in the North River (at Albany...
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the Long Island Sound on the north and the open Atlantic Ocean to the south. As of the 2020 United States census, Nassau County's population was 1,395...
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Fort Christina, also called Fort Altena, was the first Swedish settlement in North America and the principal settlement of the New Sweden colony. Built...
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with the Dutch people since its creation. Forts of New Netherland Pidgen Delaware Fort Nassau (South River) Willem Verhulst New Netherland settlements...
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the Coney Island, Fort Hamilton and Brooklyn Railroad, the Union Railroad, the Kings County Electric Railway, and finally the Nassau Electric Railroad...
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New York State Route 25A (redirect from North Country Road (Long Island, New York))
Fort Salonga, Centerport, and Roslyn. It is known by various names along its routing, the most prominent of which include Northern Boulevard, North Hempstead...
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Conquest of New Sweden (category 1655 in North America)
along the Hudson River. Their presence on the Delaware River, however, was many years limited to Fort Nassau on the east side of the river opposite the mouth...
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The Fort Clinch State Park is a Florida State Park, located on a peninsula near the northernmost point of Amelia Island, along the Amelia River. Its 1...
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from north to south. Tributaries are listed as they enter their main stem from downstream to upstream. St. Marys River Amelia River Bells River Nassau River...
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Andrew Doria (1775 brig) (section Battle of Nassau)
March, the Americans took Fort Nassau and town of Nassau. The fleet remained for almost two weeks, dismantling the guns of the forts and loading the captured...
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and forts across North America. Fort Assiniboine Beaver Lake Cree Nation Buckingham House Fort Chipewyan Fort Dunvegan Fort Edmonton Fort Calgary Fort Walsh...
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New Sweden (redirect from Fort Nya Korsholm)
India Company abandoned Fort Nassau and established Fort Casimir on the west side of the Delaware River a few miles south of Fort Christina. In May 1654...
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New Netherland (category Colonial settlements in North America)
Hudson. Soon after, the first of two Fort Nassaus was built at the confluence of the Hudson (North River) and Mohawk rivers, and small factorijen or trading...
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East Fishkill, New York East Greenbush, New York East Kill East Nassau, New York East River Evas Kill Fall Kill Fishers Island, New York Fishkill Creek Fishkill...
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afternoon, the landing force took Fort Montague and the following day captured the town of Nassau and Fort Nassau. They took a large quantity of cannon—close...
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Delaware River beyond Fort Nassau did not begin until the 1650s, after the takeover of a Swedish colony which had been established at Fort Christina...
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New Amsterdam (section Fort Amsterdam (1624))
Connecticut River) and further north at Fort Nassau on the Mauritius or North River (now the Hudson River), near what is now Albany. A fort and sawmill were soon...
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