Examples of Henry Hudson in the following topics:
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- New Netherland was the territory on the eastern coast of North America established by Henry Hudson in 1609.
- In 1609, Henry Hudson, an English explorer, was hired by the Flemish Protestants running the Dutch East India Company in Amsterdam to find a northeast passage to Asia.
- Turned back by the ice of the Arctic, Hudson sailed up the major river that would later bear his name.
- The Algonquian Lenape people along the Lower Hudson were seasonally migrational.
- European colonization of New Jersey started soon after the 1609 exploration of its coast and bays by Henry Hudson.
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- In 1609, the Dutch East India Company commissioned English explorer Henry Hudson who, in an attempt to find the fabled northwest passage to the Indies, discovered and claimed for the VOC parts of the present-day United States and Canada.
- In the belief that it was the best route to explore, Hudson entered the Upper New York Bay and sailed up the river which now bears his name.
- In 1614, Adriaen Block led an expedition to the lower Hudson and compiled the first map to apply the name "New Netherland" to the area between English Virginia and French Canada.
- The region between the lower Hudson and the Delaware was deeded to proprietors and called New Jersey.
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- Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century.
- Hudson explored the region around the modern New York metropolitan area while looking for a western route to Asia.
- After wintering on the shore of James Bay, Hudson wanted to press on to the west, but most of his crew mutinied.
- The mutineers cast Hudson, his son and seven others adrift.
- The Hudsons, and those cast off at their side, were never seen again.
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- King James II granted the land between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers to two friends and named it New Jersey after the island of Jersey.
- European colonization of New Jersey started soon after the 1609 exploration of its coast and bays by Sir Henry Hudson .
- Soon thereafter, James granted the land between the Hudson and Delaware rivers to two friends who had been loyal to him through the English Civil War and named it New Jersey after the English Channel Island of Jersey.
- A view of the Hudson River shoreline in Edgewater and Fort Lee, NJ;Burdett's Landing, where the ferry crosses the river, can also be seen.
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- Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century.
- Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a prospective northwest passage via a route above the Arctic Circle.
- In 1611, Hudson discovered a strait and immense bay on his final expedition while searching for the Northwest Passage.
- After wintering on the shore of James Bay, Hudson wanted to press on to the west, but most of his crew mutinied.
- The mutineers cast Hudson, his son, and seven others adrift, and they were never seen again.
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- Henry Hudson explored the Middle Colonies on a journey into the Hudson River and Delaware Bay in 1609.
- James II later granted the land between the Hudson River and the Delaware River to two friends who had been loyal to him through the English Civil War.
- In New York's Hudson Valley, however, the Dutch poltroons operated very large landed estates and rented land to tenant farmers.
- Broad navigable rivers like the Susquehanna, the Delaware, and the Hudson attracted diverse business, and New York and Philadelphia became important ports.
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- This stunning British defeat heralded a string of major French victories over the next few years, at Fort Oswego, Fort William Henry, Fort Duquesne, and Carillon.
- The sole British successes in the early years of the war came in 1755, at the Battle of Lake George, which secured the Hudson Valley; and in the taking of Fort Beauséjour (which protected the Nova Scotia frontier).
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- New France, colonized by France in the 16th century, included the colonies of Canada, Acadia, Hudson Bay, Newfoundland, and Louisiana.
- At its peak in 1712, the territory of New France extended from Newfoundland to the Rocky Mountains and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.
- The territory was then divided into five colonies, each with its own administration: Canada, Acadia, Hudson Bay, Newfoundland (Plaisance), and Louisiana.
- The treaty resulted in the relinquishing of French claims to mainland Acadia, the Hudson Bay, and Newfoundland, and the establishment of the colony of Île Royale (Cape Breton Island) as the successor to Acadia.
- This global map illustrates the geographic location of New France, which stretched from Newfoundland to the Rocky Mountains and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.
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- In New York's Hudson Valley, however, the Dutch established the patroon system, which resembled a feudal aristocracy governing vast land grants.
- Munsee inhabited the Highlands, Hudson Valley, and northern New Jersey, while Minquas, also known as the Susquehannocks, lived west of the Zuyd River along and beyond the Susquehanna River.
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- Washington and much of his army crossed the Hudson River into New Jersey, and retreated all the way across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania, shrinking due to ending enlistment periods, desertions, and poor morale.
- Four days later, Fort Lee, across the Hudson River from Fort Washington, was also taken.
- Washington brought much of his army across the Hudson into New Jersey, but was immediately forced to retreat by the aggressive British advance and withdrew across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania.