The British vessels rapidly overtook the fleeing American forces, causing the latter to abandon and scuttle most of their ships to prevent their capture.ĭuring the mid-1990s, Brent Phinney, the owner of a sawmill and steel fabrication shop in Brewer, Maine, discovered the remains of a wooden shipwreck in shallow water immediately off the Brewer (eastern) side of the Penobscot River. However, just as victory appeared to be within their grasp, the Americans were forced into a disorganized retreat up the Penobscot River by a British relief squadron that arrived at the entrance to the bay approximately one month later. On Jthe American naval and land forces-known collectively as the Penobscot Expedition-entered Penobscot Bay and laid siege to the British fort. The State of Massachusetts responded to the British invasion by organizing what was to become the largest combined military and naval operation conducted by the Americans during the War for Independence. In June 1779 the government of Great Britain dispatched a contingent of soldiers to Majabagaduce, Massachusetts (the present-day town of Castine, Maine) and established the military and political headquarters of a new colony for loyalist subjects fleeing rebellious American colonies in New England.
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