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The United States of New Netherland or more commonly known as New Netherland, is a country in Northeast North America that was settled by the Dutch in the 1600s. New Netherland is also the 2nd most powerful country on the continent behind the Mexican Empire. The USNN also is in constant contact with their brothers in Holland and is part of the Dutch Commonwealth of Nations. The country borders the Valoisia to the South, and Louisiana to the West and North.

Pre-Colonization
The area the New Netherland is once had some of the greatest Indian nations ever seen. Nations and tribes such as the Iroquois Confederation, Shawnee, Cherokee, and many more. The Indian tribes were brutal in warfare and often slaughtered entire villages and tribes. War was often fast, violent attacks, storming villages and killing all who appose and usually taking women hostages. However it be only until the Europeans arrived in the Caribbean. Then in 1638, Swedish exploders arrived coming down from what today is Vinland and Nova Scotia. Other explorers soon arrived with the French sailing down the St. Lawrence River and making landfall with the Iroquois from Quebec and the Dutch who landed on Lange Island and Manhattan Island.

Early Colonization (1640-1664)
The Swedes didn't have New Sweden (Nya Sverige) for long. After the Dutch started expanding from the New Amsterdam River and the cities of New Amsterdam and Fort Orange. In 1642 the Dutch had conquered Adrianus (New Jersey) and Meteren (named after the Meteren River; AKA: the Connecticut River). Dutch settlers also set up Arnhem, named after the city in Gelderland. The city quickly grew to large proportions' attracting thousands of migrants. In 1655 New Sweden was purchased by the Dutch government, and soon colonial soldiers known as the grenswacht or Frontier Guard moved in and seized the capital of Forth Christiana. New Sweden would later become the USNN state of Nieuw Zweden. The Dutch however along with the European were desperate for fur and pelts, mainly from beavers. The Dutch were too desperate for this resource. The colonial government and parliment of Holland decided to set up a trade agreement with the Iroquois Confederacy. Trading guns and jewels for fur pelts, their Indian allies ravaged the beaver populations and became the most powerful faction in the Great Lakes Regions. This would fall in with the Beaver Wars and would lead to the Anglo-Dutch War of the mid-1600s.

New Netherland in the Anglo-Dutch War
The Beaver Wars had resulted in the British declaration of war on the Dutch Empire in 1664. The British had de facto control of the colony of Quebec as it was founded by Francophonic citizens and went under London's control in the 1500s. Quebec and New France during the Beaver Wars were raided heavily and all this bottled up angry brought the French and British together for once on the same basis.

On June 10th, 1664 the British declared war on Holland. The Dutch quickly mobilized their colonial forces. New Netherlander and Iroquois forces marched on Montreal and sacked the city. Meanwhile in the Atlantic Dutch raiders managed to land blows on British ships traveling from Guiana and Jamaica to the Isles and the British held French regions. New Netherlander troops alone vastly out-numbered their British counterparts. The war in Quebec quickly became a guerilla war with the French settlers, British troops, and British allied Indian tribes preventing New Netherland forces from being shipped to Europe. In New Netherlander history this is called the Noordelijk Bos Oorlog, or the Northern Forest War. Down south more Francophonic natives along with British residence (Who mainly resided in Charles Town) were faced with the on comming New Netherlander invasion. The British commander in Valoisia had turned to a scorched-earth policy burning everything to the ground. However the British left Charles Town and open city and retreated to Savane The battles of Savane and Atlanta would halt the Dutch invasion of Valois for a time. The Dutch settled in for a siege. From August 3rd, 1665-January 14th, 1667 the lines at the two cities held (Similar siege tatics would be used 300 years later in the Australasian War

The war ended in 1668 with thousands of dead and a number of miles of land destroyed by war and fire. In the Treaty of Westminister the British realized that Valoisia was impossible to save despite their victory after the Burning of Rotterdam and subsequent Dutch surrender. The New Netherlander troops and their commanders threatened to burn all of Valoisia to the ground. However the British forces and allies in Quebec had sucked up too many enemy forces and prevented the fall of Valoisia.

Western Expansion
Valoisia was after the Treaty, transferred to the colonial government in New Amsterdam. The French and British citizens of the colony grudgingly had to accept the Dutch rule. In Holland itself, the rebuilding began but with taxes to pay for it. Parliament voted to tax all imports and exports in both the motherland and New Netherland. Some people were unwilling to follow these taxes. These people moved to the Cape Colony which had recently been discovered by the explorer Jan van Riebeeck. By 1700, overcrowding in the cities lead to an increased anger to allow settlers past the Barrière Mountains. The reluctant colony of Maagdia pushed its boundaries to the Ohio river. However in 1718 a border incident with the Iroquois almost lead to a full war between the Dutch and their native allies.

Administrative Divisions

 * Acadia
 * Andrianus-Adrianberg
 * Iroquoisa
 * Ohio
 * Nieuw Zweden-Fort Christina
 * New North Holland-New Amsterdam
 * Maagdia-Indiaas Haven
 * Mereten-Arhnem