Keywords: French Fort
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"… at the mouth of the Saco River and Union forts at Portland Harbor. There is Biddeford granite in the Lincoln monument in Springfield, Illinois and…"
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford
"… area still ran along the river, and were close by Fort Mary (the local garrison) or the village of Winter Harbor, and settlers continued to farm…"
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"As portrayed in the Union and Journal, Northerners believed the attack on Fort Sumter was not likely, because Boston papers stated that Confederate…"
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"… Public Library Soon after the surrender of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln called nationally for volunteers, requiring Maine to raise one…"
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - IV. Engulfed by nationalism: Revolutionary Biddeford
"Fort Hill, Biddeford, ca. 1906McArthur Public Library An example of this were Captain Benjamin Hooper and his sea coast patrol company "to Defend…"
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"… Johnson Hall in New York and even further west at Fort Niagara. The fundamental treaty that made fixing the international border such a long and…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740
"George (the area later known as Fort Wharf), the fort was located at the southeastern side of lower Knox Street, currently the site of the Lyman…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"… Sea Flower; Revolutionary War documents; French spoliation claims for the brig Hope; records of churches founded in towns settled by the Pejepscot…"
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"Although the Wabanaki Nations remained a formidable power until the 1760s—their strength augmented by French support from Québec and Acadia—the…"
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"… Bay was the site of one of the first French overwintering settlements in the Americas under an expedition led by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons and…"
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"… Nova Scotia—which at the time were under de jure French and de facto Wabanaki political control—was decidedly more provisional."
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"… Maine until the decisive defeat of the Wabanakis’ French allies in the Seven Years War (1756–1763) ended the possibility of credible Indigenous…"
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"… conflict, and negotiation among Wabanaki, French, Acadian, British, and US individuals and groups over several centuries."
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"As Loron wrote in 1725, with the help of a French Jesuit priest, “Here lies my distinction—my Indian distinction."
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"He watched the French and British come to the village and talk about war, trade and alliances. When Francis was a young man, his father Chief Jean…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast
"In the 1750’s the British won the third French and Indian War. The French, however, still claimed the territory east of the Penobscot River and…"
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"… the dramatic rediscovery of the remains of the French settlement of 1604 on Bone Island (modern-day St. Croix Island) and Robert Pagan deposition."
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"… bias of US and British officials, both French-speakers in the Madawaska region and Wabanaki individuals, Tribes, and Nations, continue to suffer…"
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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement
"… to carry their grain several miles down-river to Fort Pownal to have it ground. Although it took several years for the settlement to be…"
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Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 2 of 2
"… and was raised by her Aunt and Uncle who lived in Fort Kent. After graduation she attended Madawaska Training School and later Beals College where…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4
"While a new fort was built at the western side of Garrison Cove, the settlers lived aboard their ship."
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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative
"Fort Pownall now guarded the entrance to the Penobscot Valley; stalwart and hardy settlers began to settle where the two rivers met."
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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