Checratia wrote:Holy Roman Empires2 wrote:NCP POST, MAINE MERGER OPPOSITION
Fredrick Douglas was a member of the Maine House of delegates, and was a member of the ultra national Maine National Republican party. They were staunchly against a merger, and decided to stop it by force.
Frederick traveled to Danforth his hometown, raising 500 soldiers there.Fredrick, by train rapidly moved from town to town, banking on his extreme popularity in the northern region of the country.
After a mere three weeks, Fredrick had a 26,000 force, an inexperienced force. However, he knew that he could not win agaist a larger, more experienced army. So, he sent spies to General John H. Patrons army , commanding 14,000 troops sent to quash the rebellion, the majority of which were from the northern part of the country. Potentially sympathetic to his cause.
4000 of General Pattons soliders defected, bringing up the numbers of Fredrick Douglas's army to 30,000.
As Gene Roberts sat on the train to Concord, he recieved a phone call from his defense minister.
"Hello?" Gene asked.
"Gene! Someone in Maine has formed a rebellion!"
"Send in 400,000 men from Virginia. We need to squash this before things turn violent in the towns and cities."
With that call, 400,000 men had been loaded onto 4 different warships bound for Bar Harbor, many of them warry of their first battle. They arrived a day later and stepped onto the shores of the small town. They then began their march to Danforth, the source of the rebellion. Upon arrival, they immediately took control of the courthouse and main street, forced the citizens out of Danforth to take refuge in Augusta, and began setting up defensive positions for the inevitable attack.
Patton split his army into three cores of ten thousand. Patton stationed his army in the woods of Maine, prepared to harass the Virginia army.
He was daring them go attack