Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam to the British, September 8, 1664. 5. The Dutch gave up the colony without a fight. A few months later, four warships with several hundred soldiers onboard arrived in New Amsterdam's harbor and demanded that the Dutch surrender.
<span>A legal case from 1608 that has since been know as Calvins case established that Scottish citizens born after King James I unified Scotland and England were to have all the rights any Englishman was entitled to. There are some scholars who claim these rights would extend to any colonist born in British colonies, so should they ever be robbed they would be compensated.</span>
