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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). Confederates Downeast: Confederate operations in and around Maine. Provincial Press. ISBN 978-0-9316750-9-6
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 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 ...
No. of episodes: 13 [2 ... Original release; Release: 2002 () Line of Fire is a film documentary produced by Cromwell Productions that shows ... The Battle of the ...
Portland Society of Natural History organized. [3] 1844 - Portland Steam Packet Company organized. [21] 1845 - The Pleasure Boat newspaper begins publication. [22] 1846 - Portland Company established to build railway locomotives. [21] 1849 - Portland Gas Light Co. incorporated. [23] 1850 Curtis' chewing gum manufactory in business. [24 ...
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 ...
A history of the Coast Artillery in World War I states that none of the regiments in France equipped with 6-inch guns completed training in time to see action before the Armistice. [ 7 ] In 1920 Fort McKinley lost both of its 3-inch gun batteries due to obsolescence; this was part of a general removal of all Driggs-Seabury 3-inch (76 mm) gun ...