Who is Peter Stuyvesant?

Question

Who was he i have to do a report on him for my history class?

Answer 1

a brand of cigarettes, he died of lung cancer

Answer 2

Used to be a packet of f**s ...cough, cough....but I haven't seen them lately

Answer 3

Pieter Stuyvesant (c. 1612 – August 1672) often Anglicized to Peter Stuyvesant, served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664. He was a major figure in the early history of New York City.

Stuyvesant's accomplishments as director-general included a great expansion for the settlement of New Amsterdam (later renamed New York) beyond the southern tip of Manhattan. Among the projects built by Stuyvesant's administration were the protective wall on Wall Street, the canal that became Broad Street, and Broadway.

Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stuyv...

Answer 4

Peter Stuyvesant served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664. He was a major figure in the early history of New York City.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stuyv...



http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USA...

Here's some good information on him:

http://www.nndb.com/people/242/000097948...

http://www.peterstuyvesant.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stuyv...

Answer 5

Who was he? The last Dutch governor for New Amsterdam, before the English invaded the state. He also lived there straight after the invasion and was responsible for the wall being built, that is now called Wall Street

Answer 6

and because of this, you leave it to us to fill in the blanks, right?  well, peter WAS governor of new amsterdam in america. new amsterdam, aka new york city before the english  in the early 1600s. it was said he had a wooden leg due to an early injury.  many, many statues around nyc in his honor and even more streets named in his honor. when the british came ashore to take what was theirs by dutch/english treaty, good 'ol peter hid behind an old wooden desk in his home near present-day city hall. he defied the british take-over. it was the people of the city who begged stuyvesant to surrender. the dutch was facing a british warship in the lower ny bay, loaded and aimed at downtown new amsterdam. the 'surrender or else' speech left little to the dutch imagination. get more info at the wikipedia site. good luck. i rather liked peter but that's viewing him 400 years after the fact. the people of the dutch colony of new amsterdam didn't like him and felt the british to be a welcomed change. they did get along nicely  which is why you have a strong presence of english/dutch history, even today!