Statistics for occurrence #1 of “eastern Maine” in entry penobscot of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...the Eastern Indians (the only ones then hostile to the English), and so ended the contest for the Penobscot region by arms.
In 1799 a British force of several hundred men from Nova Scotia entered eastern Maine and established themselves in a fortified place on the Penobscot River. Massachusetts sent a force to dislodge the intruders.
The expedition consisted of nineteen armed vessels (three of them Conti...
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