Penobscot Expedition
1779 expedition of the American Revolutionary War
Penobscot Expedition
The Penobscot Expedition was an unsuccessful expedition launched by the Massachusetts Provincial Congress during the American Revolutionary War. On June 17, 1779, 700 British Army troops under Brigadier-general Francis McLean landed on the coast of the District of Maine and established a series of fortifications around Fort George on the Majabigwaduce Peninsula in the upper Penobscot Bay with the goals of establishing a military presence on that part of the coast and establishing the colony of New Ireland. In response, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, supported by the Second Continental Congress, raised an expedition to drive McLean's troops out. On July 19, an American fleet of 19 warships and 25 support vessels under Commodore Dudley Saltonstall set sail from Boston carrying an expeditionary force under the overall command of Brigadier General Solomon Lovell which comprised more than 1,000 colonial marines and militiamen along with 100 artillerists under Lieutenant Colonel Paul...
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