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The Battle of Portland Harbor was an incident during the American Civil War, in June 1863, in the waters off Portland, Maine.
Pages in category "Battles in Maine" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Battle of Norridgewock; Northeast Coast campaign (1703)
James Alden Jr. of Portland commanded the steam sloop USS Brooklyn in the action with Fort Gaines and Fort Morgan and with the Confederate gunboats in the Battle of Mobile Bay. Henry K. Thatcher of Thomaston commanded the West Gulf Blockading Squadron in a combined arms action against Mobile , which surrendered April 12, 1865.
The Battle of Falmouth (also known as the Battle of Fort Loyal) (May 16–20, 1690) involved Joseph-François Hertel de la Fresnière and Baron de St Castin leading troops as well as the Wabanaki Confederacy (Mi'kmaq and Maliseet from Fort Meductic) in New Brunswick to capture and destroy Fort Loyal and the English settlement on the Falmouth neck (site of present-day Portland, Maine), then ...
Afterward, the regiment was combined with those of the 7th Maine Infantry to form the 1st Maine Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment. [1] Mark Hill Dunnell, First Commander of the 5th Maine. Today the 5th Maine's memory is preserved at the Fifth Maine Regiment Community Center on Peaks Island, Maine, formerly a reunion house for the regiment's ...
Fort Casco, Portland, Maine built by Wolfgang William Romer; map by Cyprian Southack. The village was again destroyed in 1690 during King William's War by a combined force of 400-500 French and Indians in the Battle of Falmouth. Portland's peninsula was deserted for more than ten years after the attack.
Historic American Engineering Record documentation, filed under Great Diamond Island, Portland, Cumberland County, ME: HAER No. ME-59, "Fort McKinley", 15 data pages; HAER No. ME-59-A, "Fort McKinley, North Fork Mining Casemate, West side of Seal Cove Lane north of Wood Side Drive", 5 photos, 5 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
The naval Battle of Portland, or Three Days' Battle, took place during 18–20 February 1653 (28 February – 2 March 1653 (Gregorian calendar)), [a] during the First Anglo-Dutch War, when the fleet of the Commonwealth of England under General at Sea Robert Blake was attacked by a fleet of the Dutch Republic under Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp escorting merchant shipping through the English ...