Battle of Hampden
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The Battle of Hampden was an action in the British campaign to conquer present-day Maine and remake it into the colony of New Ireland during the War of 1812. Sir John Sherbrooke led a British force fr
The USS Adams being scuttled during the battle on September 3, 1814
The British expedition to Maine was commanded by the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, Major General John Sherbrooke.
Captain Charles Morris (pictured c. 1850) commanded the USS Adams during the battle.
Miniature of Captain Robert Barrie
Joshua Chamberlain
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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was an American college professor and politician from Maine who volunteered during the American Civil War to join the Union Army. He became a highly respected and decorated
Battle of Hampden
…starting in the 1840s. General Blake and two other officers (Lt. Col. Andrew Grant of Hampden and Maj. Joshua Chamberlain of Brewer, grandfather of the later Civil War general) were court-martialed in Bangor in 1816 for their part in the defeat. Blake and Chamberlain were both exonerated, but Grant was cashiered. The elderly…
Chamberlain in the 1860s
Little Round Top, western slope, photographed by Timothy H. O'Sullivan (1863)
Capt. Ellis Spear, Chamberlain's "right-hand man" on Little Round Top
Confederate General John B. Gordon was assigned the task to surrender all arms to Gen. Chamberlain.