Castine, past and present; the ancient settlement of Pentagöet and the modern town . each ordered to furnish sixhundred men, and Brigadier-General Frost was orderedto send three hundred men from the York county took with them five hundred stands of arms, fiftythousand musket cartridges, with balls, two 18-poimders,with two hundred rounds of cartridges, four field-pieces,and six barrels of gunpowder, besides the necessary sup-plies and camp furniture. The fleet consisted of nine-teen armed vessels and twenty-four transports, carryingthree hundred and forty-four guns. It is said to
Castine, past and present; the ancient settlement of Pentagöet and the modern town . each ordered to furnish sixhundred men, and Brigadier-General Frost was orderedto send three hundred men from the York county took with them five hundred stands of arms, fiftythousand musket cartridges, with balls, two 18-poimders,with two hundred rounds of cartridges, four field-pieces,and six barrels of gunpowder, besides the necessary sup-plies and camp furniture. The fleet consisted of nine-teen armed vessels and twenty-four transports, carryingthree hundred and forty-four guns. It is said to havebeen the most beautiful fleet that was ever in our East-ern waters. There were in the fleet, in addition to theseamen, some three or four hundred soldiers and marines,and about one thousand more were expected. MosesLittle, of Newbury, Mass., was appointed to commandthe naval force, but he felt obliged to decline, on accountof ill health, and the command was therefore given toDudley Saltonstall, of New Haven, Conn. Saltonstallwas a man of good abilities, and had seen something. Period of the Revolution. 29 of naval warfare. He possessed, however, an exceed-ingly obstinate disposition, and was rather overbearingin his manner. Solomon Lovell, of Weymouth, a briga-dier-general of the Suffolk militia, had control of theland forces. He was a man of undaunted courage, buthad never before had command of troops in actualservice. General Peleg Wadsworth was the second incommand. The charge of the ordnance was given toLieutenant-Colonel Paul Revere. Although twelve hun-dred of the militia had been ordered, yet they had lessthan one thousand soldiers. If they exceeded the enemysomewhat in number, yet they were entirely undisci-plined, never having even paraded together more thanonce, and were, consequently, not likely to be veryreliable in an engagement. The whole force was veryquickly in readiness, and upon the twenty-fifth clay ofJuly the fleet made its appearance in this harbor. In
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