The English sent a letter to PeterStuyvesant, requesting his surrender.
英国方面邮寄了一封信给皮特·司徒维桑特要求荷方投降。
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The West India Company appointed PeterStuyvesant (STY-ve-sent) as the new director general. Stuyvesant was the ideal candidate for the job of taming a wild frontier town.
In the mid-1650s, the small Jewish community living in lower Manhattan petitioned Dutch governor PeterStuyvesant for the right to build a synagogue, and they were turned down.