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Penobscot Bay   /pənˈɑbskɑt beɪ/   Listen
Penobscot Bay

noun
1.
An inlet of the Atlantic in eastern Maine.





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"Penobscot Bay" Quotes from Famous Books



... When the British captured Philadelphia, Barry took the Effingham up the river; but she was burned by the enemy. In 1778, in command of the thirty-two-gun frigate Raleigh, he sailed from Boston, fell in with two British frigates, and after a fight was forced to run ashore in Penobscot Bay. Barry and his crew escaped, and in 1781 carried Laurens to France in the frigate Alliance. On the way out he took a privateer, and while cruising on the way home captured the Atalanta and the Trepassey after a hard fight. As Barry brought in the first capture by ...
— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster


Words linked to "Penobscot Bay" :   Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, bay, embayment


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