A long time ago, in a continent far, far away.

A history of the United States.

Episode 53

The Anglo-Dutch Wars Part 3. Revenge of the Dutch.

War

The English Settlements of New York is crumbling under attacks by the ruthless Dutch lord, William of Orange.

There are heroes on both sides. Evil is everywhere.

In a stunning move, the fiendish Dutch leader, Captain Glove, has swept into the region and taken Governor Lovelace, leader of the English

colony. As the separatists, a Dutch army attempts to flee the besieged capital with

their valuable hostage, two Jedi knights lead a desperate mission to rescue the captive

Chancellor. desperate mission to rescue the captive chancellor. I'm not Oh, Oh,

Oh!

Oh,

Oh, Okay, wait, wait, yeah, I'm getting over dramatic again.

My apologies.

Okay, back to business.

In our last episode, we had a busy week of founding colonies, in addition to going back and

covering the early backwards character of colonial New York.

We went through the foundation stories of New Jersey, Delaware,

and Vermont. Today, we move away from the abstract and back to the narrative, as we hinted

at last time. The colony had to deal with the major issue of merging its English and Dutch characters together. This was not something

any other English colony had to deal with before. They were all distinctly homogenous. It was also

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