“History of New York” by Irving in brief
The history of New York from the creation of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty, which contains among the stories about many surprising and amusing events is also the inexplicable reflections of Walter Doubting, the disastrous projects of William the Stubborn and the chivalrous deeds of Peter Hardhall, the three Dutch governors of New Amsterdam; the only reliable story of those times of all that have ever been or will be published, written by Didrich Nierkerbocker
In one of the New York hotels in 1808, a short, nimble little old man settled and lived there for a long time, paying nothing to the owners, so they eventually became worried and began to make inquiries about who he was and what he was doing. Having found out that he was a writer, and having decided that it was some new political party, the landlady hinted to him about the payment, but the old man was offended and said that he had a treasure that was worth more than her entire hotel. After a while the old man
Didrich Knickerbocker wrote The History of New York. With his predecessors, he calls Herodotus, Xenophon, Sallust and others and dedicates his work to the New York Historical Society. Refining his reasoning with references to ancient philosophers and historians, Knickerbocker begins his work with a description of an Earth-like earth, which once “drove into her head that she should be whirling like a wayward young lady in a highland waltz.” The land consists of land and water, and among the continents and islands to which it is crushed, there is the illustrious island of New York. When in 1492 Cristobal Colon discovered America, the pioneers had to cut down forests, drain swamps and destroy savages – so readers will have to overcome many difficulties before they can easily overcome the rest of the story. The author flamboyantly proves that this part of the world is inhabited, and defends the right of the first colonists to own America – after all they zealously tried to attach
The etymology of the name Manhattan is also controversial: some say it originated from Manhattan and is associated with the habit of local residents wearing felt hats, others, including Knickerbocker, believe that Manna Hut means “a country abounding with mildew and honey “. While the Strong-Tailed and the Ten-Tishman debated how to build a new city, he grew up by himself, which made further controversy about the plan of the city meaningless. In 1629, the direct descendant of Tsar Churban, Wouter Van-Twiller, was appointed Governor of the Province of New Netherlands. He ate four times a day, spending an hour for each meal, smoking and doubting eight hours and doubting for twelve hours. The times of Van Twiller can be called the golden age of the province, comparable to the golden kingdom of Saturn, described by Hesiod. Ladies, in the simplicity of their morals, could compete with the glorified Homer Nausikaia and Penelope. Calm arrogance, or rather, the ill-fated honesty of the government was the beginning of all the troubles of the New Netherlands and their capital. Their eastern neighbors were English settlers-Puritans, who arrived in America in 1620. The residents of Mais-Chusaeg were jokingly called the Yankees for their talk. Saved from the persecution of James I, they in turn began to persecute heretical papists, Quakers and Anabaptists for the abuse of freedom of conscience, which consists in the fact that a person can hold his views on matters of religion only if it is correct and coincides with the opinion of the majority, in Otherwise, he deserves punishment. The inhabitants of Connecticut turned out to be inveterate squatters and first seized the land, and then they tried to prove their right to it. The land on the Connecticut River belonged to the Dutch, who built on the bank of the river Fort Hood-Hop,
After the death of Van Twiller in 1634, Wilhelmus Kift, who decided to defeat the Yankees via messages, became the new Netherlands, but the messages had no effect and the Yankees captured Good-Hope and then Oyster Bay. The word “Yankees” became for the Dutch as scary as the word “gall” for the ancient Romans. Meanwhile, on the other hand, the Swedes in 1638 founded the Minnevits Fortress and appropriated the name of New Sweden to the surrounding regions.
Around 1643, people from the eastern country formed a confederation of United Colonies of New England, which was a fatal blow to William the Stubborn, who believed that it was created to drive the Dutch out of their beautiful possessions. After his death in 1647, the Governor of New Amsterdam became Peter Stevensant. He was nicknamed Peter Tverdogolov, “which was a great compliment to his thinking abilities.” He concluded a peace treaty with his eastern neighbors, and the peace treaty is “a great political evil and one of the most common sources of war,” for negotiations, like courtship, are a period of amiable speeches and tender caresses, and the treaty, like a marriage ceremony, serves as a signal to hostile actions. As the eastern neighbors engaged in combating witches, they were not up to the New Netherlands, and Peter Stevensant took advantage of this to put an end to the attacks of the Swedes. General Won-Pauffenburg built on Delaware a formidable fortification – Fort Cashmere, named after the short pants of a greenish-yellow color, especially beloved by the governor. The Swedish governor, Rising, visited Fort Cashmere and, after a feast arranged by Won-Paffenburg, seized the fort. Valiant Peter Stive-sant began to collect troops to lead them to Fort Cashmere and expel the Swedes from there. Having besieged the fort, Peter’s troops began to torment the ears of the Swedes with such monstrous music that they preferred to surrender. According to another version, the demand for surrender was drafted in such a polite manner that the Swedes could not refuse to fulfill such a polite request. Peter the Firmhead wanted to conquer all of Sweden and moved to Fort Christina, which, like the second Troy, survived the siege for as long as ten hours and was finally taken. The new Sweden, conquered by the victorious Peter Stai-weant, was relegated to the position of a colony called the South River. Then Peter went to the eastern country and learned that England and New England wanted to seize the province of New Netherlands. Residents of New Amsterdam strongly strengthened the city – by decisions, because the authorities decided to defend the province in the same way that Pantagruel defended his army – covering it with his tongue. Peter returned to New Amsterdam and decided never to surrender the city without a fight. But the enemies spread an appeal among the people, in which they reproduced the conditions they presented in the demand for surrender; these conditions seemed acceptable to the people, and he, despite Peter’s protests, did not want to defend the city. Brave Peter had to sign a capitulation. There are no events, which causes a sensitive historian such grief as the decline and destruction of the glorified and powerful empires. This fate befell the empire of the High-Power Lords in the famous capital of Manhatega under the control of the peace-loving Walter of the Doubtful, irritable William the Stubborn and the chivalrous Peter the Hardhead. Three hours after the surrender, a detachment of British soldiers entered New Amsterdam. The entire space of North America from Nova Scotia to Florida became the sole possession of the British Crown. But the scattered colonies united and became powerful, they threw off the yoke of the metropolis and became an independent state. As for how Peter Styvesant ended his days, he, so as not to be a witness to the humiliation of his beloved city, retired to his estate and lived there until the end of his days.
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