Dutch traders set up settlements near for easy access to the ocean and New Netherland

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Dutch traders set up settlements near:

Fort Nassau, on Castle Island along the Hudson

for easy access to the ocean and New Netherland.

Explanation:

These first settlements of the Dutch traders in the US were later replaced by the Fort Orange in Albany after the first settlements were destroyed by flooding.  Fort Nassau and Fort Orange are so named to show that they are meant as military defences against invasion by outside forces and as trading ports because of their proximity to the sea.  History shows that the Dutch traders "constructed a fort at what they knew to be the crucial fur-trading nexus on the Hudson River," naming it after a prominent Dutch family, known as Orange Nassau.

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