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New Sweden
noun
- a colony established by Swedish settlers in 1638 along the Delaware River and captured by the Dutch in 1655: the only Swedish colony in America.
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Minuit died in 1641, and the Swedish government proceeded to place the colony on a permanent footing, and called it "New Sweden."
The origin of New Sweden was quite different from what is stated in the text.
Thus New Sweden fell, amid a storm of protest, but without bloodshed.
Such was the end of New Sweden, which had only maintained an independent existence for seventeen years.
He had regarded for some time with jealousy the little settlement of New Sweden, or as it was known in later years, Delaware.
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