Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam, the capital of New Netherland, to an English naval squadron under Colonel Richard Nicolls. Stuyvesant had hoped to resist the English, but he was an unpopular ruler, and his Dutch subjects refused to rally around him.
We failed because of the installation of political parties, meddling in foreign affair, the loss of neutrality, the fact that Washington stepped down set the president of the 2 term presidency which failed when FDR became president for 4 terms.
Women were not allowed to participate in decision making in the colonial times. They might have influenced their husbands, but could not directly participate.
