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Castine, historic resort town, Hancock county, southern Maine, U.S., on a promontory in Penobscot Bay, across the water from Belfast (west). For 200 years the place held a key position in the struggle between England and France—and to a lesser extent the Netherlands—for control of the Acadian seaboard. In 1613 the French constructed a trading post (later Fort Pentagoet) at the site. A trading post for the Plymouth colony also was built there, in 1626, but was attacked by French buccaneers in 1632. French Capuchin and Jesuit missions were established in the vicinity in the 1640s. The Frenchman Jean-Vincent d’Abbadie, ...(100 of 301 words)

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