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What if in 1664 Peter Stuyvesant, the governour of New Netherland, had had full and unrestrained support from the Dutch West Indian Company in his struggle to oppose the seizure of New Amsterdam by the English, and what if he had not antagonized the burghers of the city to the extent that they decided to abandon the use of Dutch with the coming of the new rulers? For one thing, a modern map of the world's …