Evidence of one of the U.S. Navy s greatest losses is right here in Bangor, and Brewer. You ve probably walked right by them a few times.
If you ve walked along the Bangor Waterfront, you ve probably strolled right by relics of one of the most brutal battles the U.S. Navy has ever fought. The cannons, now historic decretive piece, on the waterfront once fired upon British ships during a Revolutionary War battle off the coast of Maine. The fight would be the greatest naval disaster in U.S. history until the attack on Pear Harbor over 160 years later, in 1941.
What is known as the Penobscot Expedition was a U.S. Navy mission to dislodge the British from the Penobscot Bay area in 1779. The armada of American warships included 19 armed battleships, 24 transport ships, with over 1,000 militiamen. According to detailed battle history from the Castine Historical Society, Commodore Dudley Saltonstall lead the naval forces, Brig. Gen. Solomon Lovell commanded the land forces, and Lt.
The president of the San Francisco Board of Education discusses the controversies around reopening and renaming her district’s schools, including questions about how to view the legacies of complex historical figures.
Bob Neal: The Countryman: The triumph of ignorance
Today, ideologues on every side rely on ignorance, often building an entire ideology on one fact. Or worse, one factoid.
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The woman in Decatur, Tennessee, had just turned 95. The reporter asked a standard question: Where else in the world have you lived, and how did you like it there?
“Never been out of Meigs County, and proud of it,” she said. Or something very similar. She went on to say the rest of the world didn’t interest her, so why ever leave Decatur?
Move along, folks, nuthin’ to see here.
This is totally amazing. The San Francisco school board, as you know, renamed a bunch of schools because of the racism of Dianne Feinstein and Abraham Lincoln of course. And even the…