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    Fort Pentagouët (Fort Pentagoet, Fort Castine, Fort Penobscot, Fort Saint-Pierre) was a French fort established in present-day Castine, Maine, which was...
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  • to the public Fort Pentagouet Fort Popham, open to the public Fort Preble, open to the public Fort Scammel, closed to the public Fort Sullivan, open...
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    years. Situated on Penobscot Bay, it is near the site of historic Fort Pentagouet. Few places in New England have had a more tumultuous history than...
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    naval captain Jurriaen Aernoutsz upon seizing the capital of Acadia, Fort Pentagouet in Penobscot Bay (present-day Castine, Maine), and several other Acadian...
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  • Fort Pentagouet, the French trading post first established in 1613 as well as missionaries on Kennebec River and the Penobscot River. Fort Pentagouet...
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    early 17th century, with the French constructing Fort Pentagouet near Castine, Maine in 1613. The fort protected a trading post and a fishing station and...
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  • Penobscot may also refer to: Penobscot, Maine Fort Pentagouet (or Fort Castine or Fort Penobscot or Fort Saint-Pierre), Castine, Maine Penobscot Bay, Maine...
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  • Foster Fort George Fort Gorges Fort Halifax Fort Kent Fort Knox Fort Levett Fort Lyon Fort McClary Fort McKinley Fort O'Brien Fort Pentagouet Peaks Island Military...
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    Abenaki with the French and recaptured the former capital of Acadia, Fort Pentagouet the following year (1675) during King Philips War. He took this role...
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  • New France. By 1671, he was working for Frontenac and made a trip to Fort Pentagouet to determine its condition. The next year he was granted a seigneury...
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    for New France. He took on military tasks such as taking control of Fort Pentagouet at Majabigwaduce on the Penobscot Bay, which had been given to France...
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    Razilly. From 1635 to 1645, he served there as captain-at-arms of Fort Pentagouët (modern day Castine, Maine), holding the rank of major. After the death...
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    colonial navy captain, who briefly conquered the capital of Acadia, Fort Pentagouet in Penobscot Bay (present day Castine, Maine) and several other villages...
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    Sedgwick, named after Major Robert Sedgwick, who in 1654 captured nearby Fort Pentagouet (now Castine) from the French. In 1817, land was taken from the township...
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    sailed out of Port Royal to establish a five-month blockade of La Tour's fort at Saint John, which La Tour eventually defeated (1643). La Tour attacked...
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    communities: present-day Windsor (Fort Edward); Grand Pre (Fort Vieux Logis) and Chignecto (Fort Lawrence). (A British fort already existed at the other major...
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    established Castine. In 1625, Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour erected Fort Pentagouet to protect Castine. The coastal areas of eastern Maine first became...
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    This is a list of forts in New France built by the French government or French chartered companies in what later became Canada, Saint Pierre and Miquelon...
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  • replacing Hector d'Andigné de Grandfontaine at the capital of Acadia, Fort Pentagouet. Baudry, René (1979) [1966]. "Chambly, Jacques de". In Brown, George...
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    Claude de La Tour. In 1625, Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour erected Fort Pentagouet to protect Castine. Michigan – French transcription of Ojibwe word...
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    River, at Wiltwyck Fort Bergen, (1661) atop Bergen Hill, part of the Palisades in New Jersey Gravesend, Brooklyn Fort Pentagouet New Netherland New Netherland...
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  • captured Fort Pentagouet in two hours. They then sailed up the Bay of Fundy, pillaging several French posts along the coast and ending at Fort Jemseg,...
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    Calais (after Calais, France) Caribou Castine Deblois Detroit Fayette Fort Pentagouet Grand Isle Isle au Haut Lagrange Lamoine Minot Montville Mount Desert...
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  • Charles de Menou d'Aulnay. In 1640, he went to reinforce the garrison at Fort Pentagouet for Charles de Menou. Marot also acted as a privateer, trader and fisherman...
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  • Grandfontaine, formally established his capital on Maine territory (at Fort Pentagouet, present-day Castine) in 1670; all the others governed from capitals...
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  • 1741– Fort Pentagouet 1613–1674 Fort Pimiteoui1691–1812 Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit 1701–1796 Fort Presque Isle 1753–1852 Fort Richelieu 1665–? Fort Royal...
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    to actually assert Dutch control over the territory was rebuffed at Fort Pentagouet by three war ships from Boston. The Dutch colonial claim over Acadia...
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  • fur-trading activities in the Penobscot Bay area. It is believed that Fort Pentagouet, a combined trading post and fishing station which he built, was the...
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    Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour erected a fort named Fort Pentagouët. After the English had captured the fort, in 1635, Governor Isaac de Razilly of Acadia...
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    colonists claimed the territory now eastern Maine, and in 1613 built Fort Pentagouet fort at what is now Castine, lying across the Bagaduce River just north...
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