bronze statue peter stuyvesant nyc

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This is a picture of Peter Stuyvesant in New York City.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 after which it was split into New York and New Jersey with lesser territory becoming parts of other states.