Kieft, unhappy with the reply of the…

February 1643 CE

Kieft, unhappy with the reply of the Council of Twelve, disassembles the council on February 8, 1643.

Some of the Wappingers had taken refuge among the Netherlanders (their presumed allies) when fleeing raiding Mahican from the north.

Kieft now orders the Dutch West India Company soldiers to attack these native encampments at Corlears Hook on the East River and ...

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Willem Kieft View →

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Raritan people View → Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) View → Wappinger (Amerind tribe) View → Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic) View → New Netherland (Dutch Colony) View → Dutch West India Company View →

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Colonization of the Americas, Dutch View → Indian Wars in Upper North America View → Kieft's War, or Wappinger War View →

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