History of Albany, New York (1664–1784) state capital in the United States. In the period leading up to the Second Anglo-Dutch War, King Charles II of England granted the land from Maine to Delaware, which included all of New Netherland, to his brother James, Duke of York. In April 1664 four ships with a combined 450-men fighting force set sail for New Amsterdam. Fort Orange was surrendered to the English 16 days after New Amsterdam (the city of New York). Surrender terms at New Amsterdam were quite generous. Fort Orange was renamed Fort Albany, and the village of Beverswyck was renamed Albany, in honor of the
New York City English the (moribund) coil–curl merger, raising of to , a similar split in the short-"a" system, and "th"-stopping. Therefore, older New York City English also presumably influenced dialect evolution in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Albany, New York, whose older speakers in particular may still exhibit a short-"a" split system that appears to be an expanded or generalized variant of the New York City short-"a" system. Unsurprisingly, certain New York City dialect features also appear in New York Latino English. Though William Labov argued in 2010 that the New York accent is basically stable at the moment, some recent studies have revealed a