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Title: History of Castine, Penobscot, and Brooksville, Maine; including the ancient settlement of Pentagöet;
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Wheeler, George Augustus, 1837-
Subjects: Castine (Me.) -- History Penobscot (Me.) -- History Brooksville (Me.) -- History Maine -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Acadia Maine -- History Revolution, 1775-1783
Publisher: Bangor, Burr & Robinson
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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this day, cannonading took place between the British ves-sels and the battery on Nautilus Island ; but, finding their6 prs. were of but little service against the heavier guns ofthe battery, Captain Mowatt deemed it advisable to movestill further up the harbor.f Sir John Moore,—who waskilled at Corunna, Spain, June 16th, 1809, and in com-memoration of whose burial the ode commencing, Not adrum was heard, nor a funeral note, was composed—wasat that time a Lieutenant and Paymaster in H. B. Ms 82dRegiment, and was present on picket when this attack was *They are reported to have buried their dead upon the level ground justabove frasks rock. The presumption in favor of their burial being in thatplace, is Aery strong; but the surface of this region has become so changedjby tune, that those now living, who once knew, are unable to designate theexact spot. tFor more particular accounts of this attack, see Calefs Jouinal, in Part III,and Williamsons Hist, of Maine, Vol. 2, pp. 470 to 473.
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PENTAGOET. 43 made.* (British Plutarch, p. 243.) Captain, afterwardsSir James Henry Craig, was also present and held some com-mand at the time of this siege. (Drakes Diet, of AmericanBiograph3^) On the olst, a detachment of militia and marines, undercommand of General Wadsworth, landed at the westwardof the half-moon battery (situated at the left of the mainfort), and attacked the enemys picket. They found fiveof the enemy dead, and took fourteen prisoners, but werethemselves soon repulsed with considerable loss. Uponthe third of August, they erected a battery on the main landnorth of the peninsula, in the field behind where CaptainJoseph Wescotts house now standi, between it and theshore. Three days later, the British erected a batterydirectly opposite, on what is now known as Hatchs Point.On the seventh, as a boat was crossing from NautilusIsland to Henrys Point (then called Haineys plantation)where the Americans had a picket, the boats from theNautilus succeeded in capturing her, b

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