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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 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 ...
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.
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Fort Loyal was a British settler refuge and colonial outpost built in 1678 at Falmouth (present-day Portland, Maine) in Casco Bay. It was destroyed in 1690 by Abenaki and French forces at the Battle of Fort Loyal. The fort was rebuilt in 1742 and renamed Falmouth Fort before King George's War and rearmed again in 1755 for the French and Indian War.
Labeled as Portrait of a Girl, the piece sold for $1.4 million in an auction. "On house calls, we often go in blind, not knowing what we'll find," Veilleux told the Associated Press .
Battle of Norridgewock; Northeast Coast campaign (1703) Northeast Coast campaign (1745) ... Category: Battles in Maine. 1 language ...
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.