The original Old English language was then influenced by two waves of invasion ; the first was by language speakers of the Scandinavian branch of the Germanic family ; they conquered and colonised parts of Britain in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Only nine years later, in 1664, the Dutch were conquered by a fleet of English ships by Sir Robert Carr under the direction of James, the Duke of York.

The English conquered the Dutch settlement of New Netherland in 1664 and Greenwich Village developed as a hamlet separate from the larger ( and fast-growing ) New York City to the south.

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

In 1655 Jamaica was conquered by the English, although the Spanish did not relinquish their claim to the island until 1670.

In 1534 the settlers moved to a new healthier site they named Villa de la Vega, which the English renamed Spanish Town when they conquered the island in 1655.

* Appian writes Ρωμαικα, known in English as the Roman History, in which he includes the history of each nation conquered up until the moment of its conquest.

Some English editions state that Astérix's village of indomitable Gauls is the " fourth part " of Gaul, not yet having been conquered by Caesar.

With New Netherland, the English also came to control the former New Sweden ( in what is now Delaware ), which the Dutch had conquered earlier.

The treaty allowed the English to keep factual possession of New Netherland ( renamed New York, after James ), while the Dutch kept control over Pulau Run and the valuable sugar plantations of Suriname which they had conquered in 1667.

La rendición de Breda ( 1634 – 1635, English: The Surrender of Breda ) was inspired by Velázquez's first visit to Italy, in which he accompanied Ambrogio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases | Ambrogio Spinola, who conquered the Dutch city of Breda a few years prior.

For he conquered more territories from the Britons, either making them tributary, or driving the inhabitants clean out, and planting English in their places, than any other king or tribune.

Location of DeiraDeira ( Old English: Derenrice ( Scandinavian: Deren Riket ; Germanic Deren Reich ) or Dere ) was a kingdom in Northern England which probably emerged when Anglian warriors conquered the Derwent Valley in the third quarter of the fifth century.

English monarchs continued to use the title " Lord of Ireland " to refer to their position of conquered lands on the island of Ireland.

In this theatre the French had been on the ascendant ; " all the English assaults on French possessions had been repulsed ; Fort Penobscot on the border of Acadia had been destroyed ; the frontiers of both New England and New York had been ravaged and forced back ; the English outposts in Newfoundland had been destroyed and the island virtually conquered.

" The imposingly tall war chief Mihnehwehna / Minweweh coldly reminded him that the English may have conquered the French, but they had not conquered the Ojibwe-a true fact as the English on taking New France had neglected to make peace with their Indian allies.

For instance, when the English conquered New Amsterdam in 1664, they renamed it New York and changed the administrative language from Dutch to English.

After the Portuguese made several abortive attempts to seize control of Basra, the Safavid ruler Abbas I of Persia conquered the kingdom with the help of the English, and expelled the Portuguese from the rest of the Persian Gulf, with the exception of Muscat.

Mutual cultural societies were founded in all conquered nations to ingratiate with the natives and try to supplant English with Japanese as the commonly used language.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

The Soviet news agency TASS datelined from New York in English to Europe:

The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.

F. L. Lucas's article in SR's April 1 issue seemed to be a very fair and objective analysis of the New English Bible.

In more modern English usage, the term " adobe " has come to include a style of architecture popular in the desert climates of North America, especially in New Mexico.

A New Arabic Edition and English Translation of Shahrastani's Kitab al-Musara ' a.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English dates to 1648, in Thomas Gage's The English-American: A New Survet of the West Indies.

* 1847 – The accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars.

Some distinctive accents can be found on the East Coast ( for example, in eastern New England and New York City ) partly because these areas were in close contact with England and imitated prestigious varieties of British English at a time when these were undergoing changes.

The loss of syllable-final r in North America is confined mostly to the accents of eastern New England, New York City and surrounding areas and the coastal portions of the South, and African American Vernacular English.

Australian English started diverging from British English after the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820.

The earliest form of Australian English was first spoken by the children of the colonists born into the colony of New South Wales.

It shares most similarity with other Southern Hemisphere accents, in particular New Zealand English.

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When the English finally regained control of New Netherland they forced, as a punishment unique in the history of the British Empire, the English common law upon all the colonists, including the Dutch.

Peter Stuyvesant ( c. 1612 – August 1672 ), served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York.

This status lasted officially until the English conquest of the New Netherland colony was launched on June 24, 1664.

The signing of the Treaty of Westminster of 1674 ended the Dutch effort, and required them to return all of New Netherland to the English, including the three counties they created.

Most linguists look to Dutch sources, noting the extensive interaction between the colonial Dutch in New Netherland ( now largely New York State, New Jersey, Delaware and western Connecticut ) and the colonial English in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and eastern Connecticut.

Early European possessions in North America included Spanish Florida, Spanish New Mexico, the English colonies of Virginia ( with its North Atlantic off-shoot, The Somers Isles ) and New England, the French colonies of Acadia and Canada, the Swedish colony of New Sweden, and the Dutch New Netherland.

Upon returning, Block compiled a map, the first to apply the name " New Netherland " to the area between English Virginia and French Canada, where he was later granted exclusive trading rights by the Dutch government.

In the Treaty of Hartford, the border of New Netherland was retracted to western Connecticut and by 1653, the English had overtaken the Dutch trading post.

In 1664, the English took over New Netherland and renamed it the Province of New York.

Englewood is a corruption of Dutch Engelse buurt, or " English neighborhood ", which originally referred to Englewood, New Jersey's status as one of the few English-speaking settlements in Dutch-speaking New Netherland.

After the English capture of New Netherland in 1664, the new English colonial administration renamed both the colony and its principal city " New York ," but left the name of Haarlem more or less unchanged.

This war, provoked in 1664, contained quite a few great English victories in battle such as James II's taking of the Dutch colony of New Netherland ( present day New York ), but also Dutch victories, such as the capture of the Prince Royal during the Four Days Battle in 1666 which was the subject of a famous painting by Willem van de Velde.

At the same time, the English invaded the Dutch colony of New Netherland in North America on 24 June 1664, and had control of it by October.

The treaty stipulated that New York ( formerly New Netherland ) would henceforth be an English possession and that Suriname, captured by the Dutch in 1667, would remain their colony, confirming the status quo of 1667.

The timing of the settlement was terrible, as the English wrested New Netherland from the Dutch in 1664, and they had the settlement destroyed that same year with British reports indicating that “ not even a nail ” was left there.

By this time, the English had taken control of the area which the Dutch called New Netherland by the mid-1600s.

After the British took control of New Netherland in August 1664, the relations with the English and Native Americans became better for a while.

In 1664, the English seized the entire New Netherland colony in the Second Anglo-Dutch War and changed the name of the town to " New Castle.

Englewood Township, the city's predecessor, is believed to have named in 1859 because the community had been called the " English Neighborhood ", as the first primarily English-speaking settlement on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River after New Netherland was annexed by England in 1664, though other sources mention the Engle family and the heavily forested areas of the community as the derivation of the name.