Which of the following colonies was taken over without firing a shot?

new york

pennsylvania

maryland

New York

Explanation:

We are talking about what is known as the The Dutch Surrender in New Netherland, which was the original name of New York when it was a colony and it was occupied by the Dutch, whom gave up the colony without a fight. New Netherland only had about 9,000 inhabitants so it was vulnerable to an attack from the English with whom they fought three wars by the years 1652 and 1674, so when the English arrived to New Netherland the Dutch surrendered.

“the battle of stalingrad is not a turning point necessarily in strategic terms, because a lot more has to be done before the soviets can be certain of defeating germany,” says renowned world war ii historian richard overy. the germans had fought nearly a thousand miles across the soviet union to get to stalingrad.