Walloons in New Netherland: Forgotten Settlers in a Forgotten Colony

In Battery Park, lower Manhattan, you’ll see a monument that reads…’in Memory of the Walloon Settlers who came over to America in the Nieu Nederland Under the Inspiration of Jesse De Forest”

So after half a dozen videos of me referring to New Netherland as a Dutch Colony… now I’m telling you it’s not even Dutch? But Walloon?

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Roan van 't Land for help with the script as well as RareMaps.com for giving access to high-definition images of maps.

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