Solomon Lovell

Military Person

1732 – 1801

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Who was Solomon Lovell?

Solomon Lovell was a brigadier general in the militia of the state of Massachusetts during the American Revolutionary War. He is best known for leading the land forces during the 1779 Penobscot Expedition, a disastrous attempt by Massachusetts to dislodge a British force from a settlement on a peninsula in Penobscot Bay, present-day Castine, Maine.

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Born
1732
Died
1801

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on July 23, 2013

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