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IOTL the English captured New Amsterdam in 1664 from the Dutch, kicking off the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The settlement was renamed "New York".

Doing some research, it appears the court of the English King Charles II was divided over whether to ally with the French against the Dutch, or the Dutch against the French, with generally the pro-French faction ascendant.

As a POD, what if the English and Dutch remained at peace in the 1660s, and instead New Amsterdam was captured by a French expedition in the 1670s?
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