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Fort Hoop (s colony in the land that would eventually become Connecticut . In 1633 , the Geoctroyeerde Westindische Compagnie (GWC) in English, the Chartered West India Company commonly known as the Dutch West India Company 1621-1793 of the United Netherlands Dutch Republic built a fortified trading house of the Roman Castra design, at the south bank of the Little River, a tributary river of the Versche or Fresh River. This settlement eventually developed into Hartford, Connecticut on the confluence of the Connecticut River and the Park River . The Roman fort design was not well planned, as coordinated out of Fort Orange and Fort Amsterdam , to be the Northeast fortification and trading center of the GWC. Peter Minuit , Governor of the New Netherland s, did not follow the line of building fortifications as in Roman design, possibly out of haste & lack of resources, poor leadership, or a combination of both. By 1633 Jacob Van Curler had added a block house and palisade to the post while New Amsterdam sent a small garrison and a pair of cannons. The fort was abandoned by 1654 . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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