Today 400 years ago

[Renefatdude]

The Dutch discovered New York.

(great achievement isn't it )

Rene

 

[tomthirtysix]

Only 85 years after Verrazzano. Not bad. :laugh:

 

[LA Kings Fan]

Oh how I love the dutch.... well dutch women that is :laugh:

 

[Devil Doc]

I think the thousands of Native Americans who were living there at the time, might disagree with you.

Doc.

 

[AVB]

3 days after they landed New York's first unsolved murder happened.

 

[Renefatdude]

I think the thousands of Native Americans who were living there at the time, might disagree with you.

Doc.

They sold it to us for goods that were worth the equivalent of 60 Florijn!
A fair price I think
(thats what they are saying at the tv news here)

Rene

 

[Devil Doc]

I think the thousands of Native Americans who were living there at the time, might disagree with you.

Doc.

They sold it to us for goods that were worth the equivalent of 60 Florijn!
A fair price I think
(thats what they are saying at the tv news here)

Rene

24 dollars is what they say here, but the Indians had no conception of what it meant to own land. To them it was an impossibility, like owning the sky or the air. So, they thought they were sticking it to the Dutch who must be crazy to think they could own the land.


Doc

 

[Fatken]

Hell, I will sell it to you for $24 and for a few dollars more I will throw in a bridge or two.

Ken