Maine Communities and the War for Independence
Author : Edwin A. Churchill
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,28 MB
Release : 1976
Category : History
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Author : Edwin A. Churchill
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,28 MB
Release : 1976
Category : History
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Author : James S. Leamon
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Maine
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In the late eighteenth century, the area that would become the state of Maine was still part of Massachusetts - a colony of a colony within the sprawling British empire. This first comprehensive account of the Revolution "downeast" is the story of a people initially too preoccupied with day-to-day survival to pay much attention to the rising temper of imperial controversy. When war did erupt, many Maine colonists hoped that their geographical isolation and the presence of Native tribes - many of whom were longstanding British foes - would protect them from royal forces in nearby Nova Scotia. But this was not to be. Soon enemy privateers plundered the region's coastal settlements and shipping, and in 1779 the British established a base at the mouth of the Penobscot River. Heartened by the British presence, local loyalists sprang into action and transformed a revolution into a bitter civil war. For Maine, as for many other areas of the rebelling colonies, the struggle with England proved to be a divisive ordeal that heightened prewar social, economic, and political differences and created new ones. James S. Leamon notes that Maine's revolutionary experience can best be understood in the context of other conflicted regions - Georgia, Long Island, Maryland's Delmarva Peninsula, and the Carolina backcountry - where disrupted economies, British incursions, guerrilla warfare, and shifting loyalties defined the Revolution.
Author : Charles E. Clark
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
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Author : Nathan Goold
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 38,14 MB
Release : 1900
Category : United States
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Author : Frank Burton Miller
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806349244
At the time of the American Revolution, the Province of Maine was still part of Massachusetts, and the future towns of Cushing and St. George were confined within the so-called Plantation of Lower St. Georges. While Maine was not yet prepared to take its place as the twenty-third state of the Union in 1776, the residents of Lower St. Georges were more than ready to fight for the cause of American independence. This fact is attested to in this diminutive volume, which is composed of an alphabetically arranged series of essays of the roughly 100 soldiers and sailors from Cushing and St. George who fought on the Patriot side of the conflict. The contents range from brief sketches to extensive biographical pedigrees of the combatants.
Author : James S.. Leamon
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Page : 302 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 1996
Category :
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Author : Maine Historic Preservation Commission
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 1976*
Category : Historic sites
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Author : Nathan Goold
Publisher :
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 12,98 MB
Release : 2015-07-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781331120896
Excerpt from Windham, Maine in the War of the Revolution About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Kathy Kenny
Publisher : History Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 2021-05-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781540248008
Holding an integral place in Maine's community, the story of its early taverns and tea rooms is an important account of commerce and political and social life. From famed Revolutionary War incidents to Civil War generals, stagecoaches and the story of rum, the history of Maine's early taverns is captivating. The tea rooms of the early 1900s were just as interesting and important. They played a large role in the national tea movement, the temperance and suffragette movements and the promotion of women's independence, and they also symbolized Maine's culture and sophistication. Join local authors Kathy and Bill Kenny as they unveil the stories, characters and history of these establishments over the past four centuries.
Author : Theodore Parker Burbank
Publisher : Parker Nelson Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 10,85 MB
Release : 2017-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935616177
The story of the American Revolutionary War Battle to prevent British creation of New Ireland in Maine