New Sweden is unsteady after the disappearance of Minuit, however its' leaders are able to sweet talk and manipulate Willem Kieft, leader of New Netherland. Johan Printz becomes governor of New Sweden and perhaps the largest man in the Americas, but then Peter Stuyvesant takes commad of New Netherland and the two of them play a long game of Geo-Politcal Chicken over the Delaware river.
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30 сен 2024
