In 1605, the French started a colony at Port Royal (modern-day Annapolis). After three years exploring the East Coast, the colonists returned to France. In 1610 a man named Poutrincourt reestablished a colony at Port Royal. In 1613, four Jesuit priests founded a mission on the island of Mount Desert. Since the English had already established a colony at Jamestown, they felt the French were invading their territory. Captain Samuel Argall sailed from Virginia to these settlements and burned them. The French then left the Chesapeake Bay.
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