Original sentence: Areas occupied included coastal towns along Maine and New Brunswick, two forts, and a French military headquarters.Previously he had been sailing the North Atlantic Ocean looking for English and French Ships to attack.The Dutch Occupation of Acadia began in 1674, when the Dutch naval Captain Jurriaen Aernoutsz briefly occupied French-held areas of Acadia.The last formal Dutch claim to Acadia was in 1676, but effective control of any territory ended much earlier
Edited sentence: Areas briefly occupied included coastal towns along the shores of Maine and New Brunswick, two forts, and a French military headquarters.Effective control of the territory was never fully established.Previously he had been sailing the North Atlantic Ocean looking for English and French ships to attack.The Dutch Occupation of Acadia began in 1674, when the Dutch naval captain Jurriaen Aernoutsz seized several settlements of Acadia, a part of the French colonial empire in northeastern North America.The French regained control of the two forts in later in 1676, and the formal Dutch claim to Acadia was finally abandoned with the Treaty of Nijmegen in 1678