War of Fishing
The War of Fishing is the name given to several Amerindian raids perpetrated more particularly by the Andastes but also of other tribes combined with the latter) in 1655 against the establishments Dutch of the New-Country-Low. Most important and the first of these raids Amerindian occurred the September 15th 1655 whereas 500 warriors invaded the chief town (New Amsterdam) of the colony since the southern point of the island of Manhattan.
Origins
The title affublé with this war comes to him from the rhetoric according to which a Dutch colonist would have assassinated an Amerindian young person who tried to subtilize to him some fishings with same the fruit tree. These intrigues would have then engaged the fury of Andastes which would have retorted by badgering several villages with the periphery with New Amsterdam.
However, for a few years, of the historians having taken part or having profited from the fruits of the work of Project New Netherland (translation of the colonial files Dutchwoman always existing) have put forth the assumption that the conquest of the News-Sweden by Pieter Stuyvesant which had just been led to the mouth of the Delaware is probably a better cause of the aggression of Andastes against the colony. For proof, Russell Shorto stresses that the colonists noticed that a andaste chief seemed to direct the procession of Amerindians “not-rooms” has just aterrir on the island. Moreover, the Swedish had succeeded, during the 17 previous years, to establish the strong foundations of a lucrative trade with Andastes what the conquest carried to terms.
Repercussions
The repercussions of this momentary aggression were amplified by the fact that defenses of the colony Dutchwoman were weakened. Pieter Stuyvesant and the majority of the military body of the Compagnie Dutchwoman of the Western Indies (more or less 300 soldiers) sat at the feet of the ramparts of Fort Christina in News-Sweden. Janny Venema nevertheless counts “about fifty killed colonists and more than one hundred of people taken as an hostage, especially of the women and children”.
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