Militäroperation

Penobscot Expedition

14. Aug. 1779 · 44.39° N, 68.81° W

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14. Aug. 1779
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44.39° N, 68.81° W
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armada during the American Revolution

Penobscot Expedition

1779 expedition of the American Revolutionary War

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 establishin…

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