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    USS Kennebec was a Unadilla-class gunboat built for the U.S. Navy following the outbreak of the American Civil War. She was named for the Kennebec River...
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  • USS Kennebec may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Kennebec (1861), a gunboat, launched in 1861, commissioned in 1862 and sold...
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    USS Katahdin (1861) USS Kennebec (1861) USS Kineo (1862) USS Marblehead (1861) USS Ottawa (1861) USS Owasco (1861) USS Pembina (1861) USS Penobscot (1861) USS Pinola (1861)...
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  • a blockship in June 1898 during the Spanish–American War USS Merrimack (AO-37), a Kennebec-class fleet oiler in commission from 1942 to 1950 and again...
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    Mobile, Alabama. She captured schooner Helena there 30 June and with USS Kennebec seized steamers James Battle and William Bagley in the Gulf of Mexico...
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    USS I. J. Merritt (ID-3780) USS Ibex (1863, IX-119) USS Ibis (SP-3051, AM-134) USS Ice Boat (1861) USS Ice King (ID-3160) USS Icefish (SS-367) USS Ida...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Kanawha (1861)
    USS Kanawha was a Unadilla-class gunboat built for the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the navy to patrol navigable waterways...
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    USS Pinola was a Unadilla-class gunboat built for the Union Navy during the American Civil War. The Pinola was launched on or about 3 October 1861, commissioned...
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    Under the cover of darkness and the ready guns on board USS Metacomet and the USS Kennebec, Watson led four boats directly to the grounded steamer and...
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    It coordinated the coast defenses of Portland, Maine, the mouth of the Kennebec River, and surrounding areas from 1895 to 1950, beginning with the Endicott...
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  • USS Itasca was a Unadilla-class gunboat built for the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways...
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    USS Aroostook was a Unadilla-class gunboat built for the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Aroostook was used by the Navy to patrol navigable...
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    USS Texas (BB-35) is a museum ship in Galveston and former United States Navy New York-class battleship. She was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned...
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  • Jamestown Island on May 14, 1607 English establish the Popham Colony along the Kennebec River (Maine) on August 13, 1607 – August 1607 First Anglo-Powhatan War...
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    gunboats had likewise been with Farragut since the capture of New Orleans: Kennebec and Itasca. Galena was now very much like the others, but she had begun...
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    warships including nine Unadilla-class gunboats: Cayuga, Itasca, Katahdin, Kennebec, Kineo, Pinola, Sciota, Winona and Wissahickon. On the night of April 20...
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  • at Penobscot Bay in the 1620s. The territory between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers was first called the Province of Maine in a 1622 land patent granted...
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    Brooklyn, and Richmond. Third section, Captain Henry H. Bell: USS Sciota, Iroquois, Kennebec, Pinola, Itasca, and Winona. The ship Portsmouth was left to...
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    subsidiary of General Dynamics, is a major American shipyard located on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine. Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington...
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    he received a more tempting offer: to become editor and co-owner of the Kennebec Journal. Blaine had spent several vacations in his wife's native state...
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    settlers from attacks along the former border of New England and Acadia, the Kennebec River, the British built Fort Halifax (Winslow), Fort Shirley (Dresden...
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    up the huge supply depot at City Point, Virginia. Erasmus D. Keyes of Kennebec County commanded the IV Corps of Army of the Potomac during the first half...
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    Northeastern Frontier of Maine from February to May 1839. Augusta, ME: Kennebec Journal Print. pp. 4–5. Retrieved October 15, 2007 – via Internet Archive...
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  • System: 1802–1815. War of 1812: 1812–1815. Third System: 1816–1860. Civil War: 1861–1867. 1870s: 1868–1879. Endicott: 1885–1904. Taft: 1905–1916. World War I:...
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  • Thumbnail for Seacoast defense in the United States
    new-construction forts of the Third System: Penobscot River, Maine: Fort Knox; Kennebec River, Maine: Fort Popham; Portland Harbor, Maine: Fort Gorges, Fort Scammell...
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  • Texas Mifflin Kenedy, an early rancher and businessman in South Texas Kennebec County Maine An Eastern Abenaki word, /kínipekʷ/, meaning "large body of...
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    Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, Gaspé, in Quebec, and to the Kennebec River in southern Maine. By 1621, however, France had ceded territories...
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  • War, with the rank of Acting-Master. He was wounded in action during the 1861 Battle of Port Royal. During 1863 he commanded the schooner Kittatinny as...
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    fronts: the southern border of Acadia, which New France defined as the Kennebec River in southern Maine, and in Nova Scotia, which involved preventing...
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    the support of their Wabanaki and French allies, the British along the Kennebec River in southern Maine which was the natural boundary between Acadia and...
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