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Item 14762
Title: Battle of Tripoli, July 25, 1804
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1830
Location: Tripoli
Media: Oil on panel
Item 67506
Title: Battle of Port Hudson, Louisiana, 1863
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1887
Location: Port Hudson
Media: Digital image of chromolithograph
Item 19019
Title: Naval Battle at Machias
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1912
Location: Machias
Media: Ink on paper
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Enemies at Sea, Companions in Death
Lt. William Burrows and Commander Samuel Blyth, commanders of the USS Enterprise and the HMS Boxer, led their ships and crews in Battle in Muscongus Bay on Sept. 5, 1813. The American ship was victorious, but both captains were killed. Portland staged a large and regal joint burial.
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Liberty Threatened: Maine in 1775
At Lexington and Concord, on April 19, 1775, British troops attempted to destroy munitions stored by American colonists. The battles were the opening salvos of the American Revolution. Shortly, the conflict would erupt in Maine.
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Lexington of the Seas: A Narrative
The story of the capture of the British ship Margaretta by a group of Patriots in Machias on June 12, 1755 has taken on legendary proportions, some of them deserved, some exaggerated to improve the story and to move Machias more toward the center of the Revolutionary War narrative.