Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America Alexandre Montagu • Richard Van Camp •

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Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America Alexandre Montagu • Richard Van Camp •The author of The Island at the Center of the World offers up a thrilling narrative of how New Yorkthat brash, bold, archetypal citycame to be. In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls, the military officer who led the English flotilla bent on destruction,