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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.

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