“New Amsterdam,” tells a captivating and compelling story of ambition, exploration, and adventure in the Dutch Colony of New Netherland.

*Episode 5 - Line in the Sand*

New Netherland's West India Company Director-General Pieter Stuyvesant was going through some things.

After arriving in New Amsterdam, Stuyvesant went to work to straighten out the failing Dutch colony, and tried to undo the damage the previous Company Directors had done.

But a group of residents of New Netherland were fed up with the Company's incompetent and dictatorial rulers and demanded a say in the Colony's government.

The Council of Nine Men, who'd declared independence from Stuyvesant's government, sent delegates to the Dutch Republic to discuss the mismanagement of the Colony with the Republic's Government, the States General.

The Director-General, in the middle of border negotiations with the New England Governors, sent his representative, Secretary Cornelis van Tienhoven, to the Republic to defend him and his government.

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Episode 2: Open for Business - https://youtu.be/OXbuXE5YXmo

Episode 3: This Means War - https://youtu.be/BJibQiTUDrk

Episode 4: The Stuyvesant Effect - https://youtu.be/ZNCGLRkGgR8

Episode 5: Line in the Sand - https://youtu.be/Ktz2mRRvjGA

Episode 6: Bricks in the Wall - https://youtu.be/AxHAY_wL_ZI

Episode 7: From Above to Below - https://youtu.be/rRxo82lVSb0

Episode 8: Mad for a Dutch War - https://youtu.be/UPe4_nc-4TU

Episode 9: 'Tis Now Called New York https://youtu.be/RivcY3zwFjA

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*CHAPTERS*

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:24 01. Old Netherland

00:03:35 02. Make Your Case

00:08:35 03. Off-Duty

00:13:55 04. New World Attraction

00:15:36 05. Perverse Administration

00:18:41 06. You Do You

00:21:47 07. That Was Rude

00:25:17 08. Dark Cloud

00:28:07 09. Coupe d'Orange

00:31:02 10. Humiliating Defeat

00:33:56 11. No Friends

00:35:35 12. Stack the Deck

00:39:40 13. Our Great Moscovy Duke

00:43:41 14. Fair Play

00:46:40 15. Act of Navigation

00:50:34 16. Mosquitos

00:55:21 17. Beverwyck

00:58:30 18. Down in the Gutter

01:00:01 19. Receipts