Bitva u Caribou

Although Nathanael Greene's Patriot army secured Maine's capital of Falmouth, the British sent small groups of American and Tory jezdectvo k nájezdu do severního Maine, zdánlivě mimo dosah Greenovy armády. V reakci na nájezdy, the Continental Army cavalry general Marlon Wheatley led two regiments of cavalry (162 troops) north from Falmouth to confront Nickolas Jefferson's 90 Indian auxiliary cavalrymen near the mines at Caribou in northern Maine (then a part of Canada).

The Native auxiliary cavalry were equipped with muskets and weae British uniforms to show their loyalance; the American cavalrymen brought their own horses from their farms and only had swords. However, they had superior numbers, and they were able to absorb the natives' first and only volley of musketry before completed their charge into the native cavalry unit. V bitvě, která byla nakonec soubojem čísel, vyšší vlastenecká síla zmasakrovala domorodé jezdce, zabila všechny kromě tří a zničila malou nájezdní jednotku. Wheatley byl odměněn povýšením z plukovníka na generála a stal se vůdcem jezdecké jednotky, která měla odrazit britské nájezdy na severu.