Peach War
As Peach war is a conflict between was Wappinger - Indians from the tribe of the Lenni Lenape and Dutch settlers in the colony New Netherland in North America known.
In 1655 , a Dutch farmer shot and killed a Wappinger woman who he caught stealing peaches in his garden. Her relatives went to Fort Amsterdam to see Governor Petrus Stuyvesant and demanded in vain atonement and damages . 200 Wappinger warriors then moved to Manhattan to kill the farmer, but were embroiled in a skirmish with the Dutch military. The Wappingers crossed the Hudson River, united with the Hackensack and burned Dutch farms on the west bank of the river at Pavonia in what is now Jersey City and on Staten Island . At the end of the war, 50 Dutch settlers had died and a ransom had to be paid for 50 more colonists captured.
The author Russel Shorto, however, sees the conquest of New Sweden by Stuyvesant in the same year as the real cause: the Indians simply fulfilled their alliance obligations towards the Swedes.
See also
Web links
- Sanderson Beck: English, French, and Dutch Colonies 1643-1664: New Netherland and Stuyvesant 1642-64. In: san.beck.org. November 20, 2006 (English, excerpt from: America to 1744. World Peace Communications, ISBN 978-09762210-7-4 ).
- Lee Sultzman: Metoac History. In: dickshovel.com. January 23, 1999 (English).
- Lee Sultzman: Delaware History. In: tolatsga.org. February 25, 2000 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lee Sultzman: Metoac History. In: dickshovel.com. January 23, 1999, accessed March 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Russell Shorto: New York - Island in the Middle of the World. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2004, ISBN 3-4980-6360-X .
This article is based on the article Peach War ( Memento from July 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) from the free encyclopedia Indianer Wiki ( Memento from March 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) and is under Creative Commons by-sa 3.0 . A list of the authors was available in the Indian Wiki ( Memento from July 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).