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Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History magazine.

The English takeover of Manhattan from Dutch colonists is often seen as the start of the island's history.

Yet knowing what came before this moment and how exactly the takeover happened is just

as important in understanding the island's place in world history. In today's episode, Russell Shorto

tells the story of a peaceful yet transformative handover that turned a Dutch trading post into an English colony and set Manhattan

on its path to becoming a global powerhouse. We are talking today about the taking of Manhattan

in 1664 from the Dutch by the English. But Russell, before we go into this subject of your

wonderful book, I wonder if we can backtrack

and look at the first taking.

And what is commonly understood about this transaction?

And what would you like our listeners to understand before we move ahead in this story?

Well, first of all, Eleanor, thank you very much for having me.

And I think you are right to look at the first,

taking first, because it remains a part of the story and remains part of American history to

this day. Europeans took parts of the American continent from native people and eventually

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