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Brigadier General Solomon Lovell | |
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Born | Abington, Province of Massachusetts Bay | June 1, 1732
Died | September 9, 1801 Weymouth, Massachusetts | (aged 69)
Buried | North Weymouth Cemetery |
Allegiance | Great Britain Massachusetts Bay United States |
Branch | British Army Massachusetts Bay Militia Continental Navy |
Rank | Brigadier General |
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Solomon Lovell (1732–1801) was a brigadier general in the militia of Massachusetts Bay 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.