Portland, ME
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
Samuel Freeman
The Night Before the Guns
Samuel Freeman was town clerk of Falmouth, which meant that when Henry Mowat anchored in the harbor on October 17, 1775, and issued his ultimatum, Freeman was one of the men who had to go aboard the C...
Modern Voices
The Fire That Backfired
The burning of Falmouth is a textbook case of a military action that achieved its tactical objective and failed its strategic purpose completely. Mowat burned the town. He did exactly what he set out ...
