11/14 And he ruled so sternly that the colonists were glad when the English came and conquered them. The Dutch West India Company was a failure. It had no money to spend for the defence of the colonists, and Stuyvesant was obliged to lay heavy taxes on the people. _Higginson_, 106-108.] [Sidenote: Stuyvesant conquers them.] 63. New Sweden .-- When the French, the English, and the Dutch were founding colonies in America, the Swedes also thought that they might as well have a colony there too. |