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Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, located beside the "North River" (the modern Hudson) within present-day Albany, New York,...

Fort Nassau may refer to: Fort Nassau (North River), established 1614 in Albany, New York Fort Nassau (South River), established 1623 in Gloucester City...

Fort Nassau was a factorij in New Netherland between 1624–1651 located at the mouth of Big Timber Creek at its confluence with the Delaware River. It...

and a moat eighteen feet wide. He named it Fort Nassau in honor of stadtholder Maurice of Nassau. The river, sometimes known as the Mauritius was also...

in Jamestown, Virginia, ensuring the colony's success. 1615 – Fort Nassau (North River) founded near Albany, New York. 1617–19 – Smallpox kills roughly...

Albany. Under direction of the Dutch, they built Fort Orange roughly 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Fort Nassau, which was prone to flooding, and about five miles...

coastline neighborhoods of the towns of North Hempstead (such as Great Neck and Port Washington) and Oyster Bay in Nassau County and Huntington in Suffolk County...

ashore, seizing Fort Montagu but not advancing upon the town, where the gunpowder was stored. Governor Montfort Browne had most of Nassau's gunpowder loaded...

along the northern bank of the Nassau River, continuing into the Nassau Sound. Still eastward and somewhat to the north is a large area of marshes and...

Fort Nassau to the Christina River, downstream from the Swedes' Fort Christina. The Dutch consolidated their forces at the rebuilt fort, renamed Fort...

new fortress which would replace Fort Nassau and Fort Beversreede. He began by purchasing all the land south of Fort Christina all the way to Bombay Hook...

the Coney Island, Fort Hamilton and Brooklyn Railroad, the Union Railroad, the Kings County Electric Railway, and finally the Nassau Electric Railroad...

Wiltwyck. Fort Nassau (1614), on the North River (at Albany, New York), lost to floods Fort Orange (1624), Castle Island in the North River (at Albany...

The Fort Clinch State Park is a Florida State Park, located on a peninsula near the northernmost point of Amelia Island, along the Amelia River. Its 1...

ISBN 978-1-60354-008-7. "Fort Nassau". Gloucester County, New Jersey History and Genealogy. Retrieved 2010-09-15. New River Notes Delaware Historical...

Fort Christina, also called Fort Altena, was the first Swedish settlement in North America and the principal settlement of the New Sweden colony. Built...

along the Hudson River. Their presence on the Delaware River, however, was many years limited to Fort Nassau on the east side of the river opposite the mouth...

the Long Island Sound on the north and the open Atlantic Ocean to the south. As of the 2020 United States census, Nassau County's population was 1,395...

with the Dutch people since its creation. Forts of New Netherland Pidgen Delaware Fort Nassau (South River) Willem Verhulst New Netherland settlements...

During May's brief directorship, Fort Orange was completed on the North River, and Fort Nassau on the South River. Cape May, New Jersey and Cape May...