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Peter Stuyvesant

The British seize Manhattan from the Dutch—and alter the trajectory of North American history

On September 5, 1664, two men faced one another across a small stretch of water.

The people who stand ready to trade their lives for ours are part of a tradition that goes back 400 years

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