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Would you swap a tiny island just 1 mile (or 3 kilometres) square for New York City?
Crazy though that sounds, that is exactly what the British and the Dutch did in 1667.
In a peculiar twist in history, the Dutch swapped their settlement of New Amsterdam on Manhattan island for the island of Run, in modern-day Indonesia.
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Would you swap a tiny island just 1 mile (or 3 kilometres) square for New York City?
Crazy though that sounds, that is exactly what the British and the Dutch did in 1667.
In a peculiar twist in history, the Dutch swapped their settlement of New Amsterdam on Manhattan island for the island of Run, in modern-day Indonesia.
The Barbary Pirates & England's White Slaves
Rule Britannia
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