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Bernard
And don't forget Hoboken, which is also a district of my home town Antwerp.It was called New Amsterdam earlier. Which explains Yankees, which came from the typical Dutch name Jan Kees, like our repainter Jan Kees Blom here.....Harlem, is named after the Dutch city Haarlem and Brooklyn is named after Breukelen a village close to Utrecht. Flushings after Vlissingen and Staten Island is named after the Staten-Generaal. And ther are probably more......
In 1664 it was surrendered to the British to avoid a war. Nevertheless the war came the next year......
Huub, thanks for this short history excursion. I knew some of these name origins, and others weren't familiar to me.
The shown French Hermione was probably never there, but the site is more spectacular than Bay of Boston reached in 1780.
Bernard
My great-grandparents on my father’s side were from Antwerp.And don't forget Hoboken, which is also a district of my home town Antwerp.





There are a lot of people in Quebec who would like to argue that point.By the way the huge French role in the discovery of America is quite often overlooked. But that's an other history lesson......
Huub