Jeremiah O'Brien and his brothers were furious.
O'Brien, described by a Maine historian as a "hot-headed Irishman" and "bigger-than-life individual," fumed when in the summer of 1775 a British naval commander demanded the liberty pole erected in the center of tiny Machias, Maine, had to go.
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