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Dartmouth

Dartmouth,town (1991 pop. 5,282), Devon, SW England, on the Dart estuary. The principal feature of the town is Britannia Royal Naval College. Dartmouth has engineering and pottery industries, boatbuilding facilities, and is a yachting center. Dartmouth was an important port for the wine trade (12th–15th cent.) with波尔多and supplied Edward III with 31 ships for the siege of加来in the Hundred Years War. U.S. troops used Dartmouth as an embarkation point for the Normandy invasion (see underNormandy campaign) in World War II.

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