167: The Craziest Land Swap in History? Manhattan for a tiny island in Indonesia

from The History Chap Podcast · host Chris Green

Send me a messageWould you swap a tiny island just 1 mile (or 3 kilometres) square for New York City?Crazy though that sounds, that is exactly what the British and the Dutch did in 1667.In a peculiar twist in history, the Dutch swapped their settlement of New Amsterdam on Manhattan island for the island of Run, in modern-day Indonesia.The Barbary Pirates & England's White SlavesRule BritanniaBecome a PatronSupport the show

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