... of the fort against them The deserters saw that if they tried to leave the harbor he would knock their vessel to pieces, so they came back One of the leaders of these men was tried and shot; the ... called the Netherlands; that is, the Low Lands When the Dutch took possession of the country on the Hudson (1614), they gave it the name of New Netherland,[3] for the same reason that the English ... make matches of, fastened them to the points of their arrows, set fire to them, and then shot the blazing arrows into the shingles of the roof When the Indians saw that the shingles had caught,...