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On May 9, 1725, a small band of English colonists engaged an undetermined number of Pequawket braves in a remarkable battle on the banks of Saco Pond in what is now Fryeburg, Maine. What, if anything, made this now nearly forgotten battle so remarkable?
In 1676, the colonial settlers in Scarborough, Maine, had abandoned the town after fierce fighting with a small army of Indians. That set the stage for the siege of Scarborough the following year. King Philip’s War had been raging since 1675.
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By 1635 Gorges's Maine included several small communities: York, Saco, and Cape Porpoise established in 1630, Kittery and Scarborough the following year, Falmouth in 1633, North Yarmouth in 1636, and Wells in 1642. In 1640 he sent his nephew, Thomas Gorges, to Maine to establish a capital at Agamenticus on the York River.
3 paź 2015 · A Swedish army led by the 21-year-old monarch Karl XI soundly defeated a Danish army at Lund. The Danes invaded Scania with 14,000 men on June 29/July 8, 1676. They were in fine fit before the battle, well equipped and confident, braced by large numbers of German mercenaries.
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the dramatic expansion of the cotton mills erected by the York Co., Saco (1830), and the Laconia Co. (1844) and Pepperell Co. (1848) in Biddeford pulled the center of commerce to York Square on Factory Island.
29 wrz 2016 · The first known European settler in Scarborough was John Stratton, who prior to 1631 established a year-round fish stage and trading post on islands about three miles off shore. Stratton and his companions traded with Indians and the fishing fleets that visited the Maine coast.
