New Sweden

noun

1. 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.

Example Sentences

Minuit died in 1641, and the Swedish government proceeded to place the colony on a permanent footing, and called it "New Sweden."

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The origin of New Sweden was quite different from what is stated in the text.

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Thus New Sweden fell, amid a storm of protest, but without bloodshed.

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Such was the end of New Sweden, which had only maintained an independent existence for seventeen years.

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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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