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= The Dutch Found New Netherland = Following the English and French into North America were the Dutch. An Englishman, Henry Hudson, who was in the service of the Netherlands, sailed west. He explored three waterways that were later named for him--the Hudson River, Hudson Bay and the Hudson Strait. The Dutch established a fur trade with the Iroquois Indians. They built trading posts along the Hudson River at Albany, then Fort Orange and on Manhattan Island. In 1621, the Dutch government granted the company permission to colonize the region and expand the fur trade. Although the Dutch company profited from its fur trade, it was slow to attract Dutch colonists.

During these times the English and the France were fighting over land claims in the Ohio Valley. This conflict became known as the __French and Indian War__.

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