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In this essay, I will show that little attention was paid to New Netherland, which hardly featured in the plans and actions of the West India Company and, by extension, in the schemes of the political rulers of the Dutch Republic. The West India Company was founded as a counterpart of the Dutch East India Company, that commercial giant in the Indian Ocean which had managed to rapidly seize.