Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam

He also played a great role in the early history of new York City. During all these years Stuyvesant completed a lot, for example, he enlarged the territory of New Amsterdam till Manhattan. He was also the author of such famous projects of New York City as wall on the Wall Street, the canal that later turned into Broad Street, and also the construction of Broadway. The family of Stuyvesant possessed a big part of land in New Amsterdam and some of the places there (like high school, for example) are named in his honor. Besides technical questions and projects, Stuyvesant was involved into the religious problems. In order to preserve the stability of the settlements in the New World he restricted the worship of some religious groups such as Jews, Lutherans, and Quakers. In general the book is very interesting for all readers who are fond of history and of those figures who shaped the history and changed its course.