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1673

The Dutch briefly take it back. A Dutch fleet retakes the town and renames it New Orange. It lasts fifteen months. Under the Treaty of Westminster the Netherlands trades it back to England in exchange for Suriname, which at the time looks like the better deal.

The British & Revolution era

  1. 1673
  2. 1712
  3. 4 August 1735
  4. 1754
  5. 27 August 1776
  6. 21 September 1776
  7. 25 November 1783

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