Why did Great Britain (England) negotiate a deal with the Dutch to take control over the region which later would become the mid-Atlantic colonies?

The English saw the Dutch as a threat. New Netherland lay like a wedge between New England and English colonies in the South. So, King Charles II decided that his brother, the Duke of York, should drive the Dutch out of New Netherland.

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