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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. Two civilian ships engaged two vessels under Confederate States Navy employment.
The Harbor Defenses of Portland was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command. [1] It coordinated the coast defenses of Portland, Maine, the mouth of the Kennebec River, and surrounding areas from 1895 to 1950, beginning with the Endicott program. These included both coast artillery forts and underwater minefields.
Battle of Norridgewock; Northeast Coast campaign (1703) Northeast Coast campaign (1745) ... Category: Battles in Maine. 1 language ...
Pages in category "Battles of the American Civil War in Maine" ... Battle of Portland Harbor This page was last edited on 11 November 2019, at 03:20 (UTC). ...
The 10th Maine Battalion served as headquarters guard for the XII Corps at the Battle of Chancellorsville and as part of the Army of the Potomac's provost guard at the Battle of Gettysburg. The 10th Maine Battalion was detached from the XII Corps at Tullahoma, Tennessee , on February 29, 1864, to be amalgamated with the 29th Maine Infantry .
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 ...
A report from night 50 of the Black Lives Matter protests that have rocked Portland and focused national attention on the Trump administration’s efforts to suppress protests that sometimes carry ...
Portland became United States Navy destroyer base Sail during the Battle of the Atlantic. [53] Victoria Mansion museum opens. Portland street car system dismantled. [27] 1942 - Battery Steele built. 1944 - A-26 Invader crash near Portland airport was Maine's worst aircraft accident. [54] 1946 - Baxter Woods municipal forest established. [55]