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The Oxford History of the American People. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 664. ISBN 978-0-1950003-0-6. Maine Bureau of Corporations, Elections, and Commissions; Harper's Weekly, 11 July 1863; Confederate Navy Research Center, Mobile, Alabama; The New York Times, 28 June 1863. Smith, Mason Philip (1985).
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 ...
End of interurban service from Portland to surrounding communities. [27] 1934 - Flying Yankee began streamliner service to Portland. [50] 1940 - East Wind began summer passenger train service to Portland for vacationers from major eastern cities. [51] 1941 Portland–Montreal Pipe Line completed. [52]
The History of Portland, Maine, begins when Native Americans originally called the Portland peninsula Məkíhkanək meaning "At the fish hook" in Penobscot [1] [2] and Machigonne (meaning "Great Neck") [3] in Algonquian. The peninsula and surrounding areas were home to members of the Algonquian-speaking Aucocisco branch of the Eastern Abenaki ...
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The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (also known as "Our Lady of Victories") [1] is a monumental statue located in Monument Square, Portland, Maine, United States.Dedicated on October 28, 1891, [2] it honors "those brave men of Portland, soldiers of the United States army and sailors of the navy of the United States who died in defense of the country in the late civil war". [3]
In 2002, the Discovery Channel produced an episode of the Unsolved History documentaries, entitled "Death of the U.S.S. Maine." It used photographic evidence, naval experts, and archival information to argue that the cause of the explosion was a coal bunker fire, and it identified a weakness or gap in the bulkhead separating the coal and powder ...
Maine A History vol.1, vol2, vol 3, (1919) Leamon, James S. Revolution Downeast: The War for American Independence in Maine (University of Massachusetts Press, 1993) online edition; Lockard, Duane. New England State Politics (1959) pp 79–118; covers 1932–1958; MacDonald, William. The Government of Maine: Its History and Administration (1902).