sentences:  At the same time, there was s traumatic capture of the American privateer "Young Teazer" off Chester, Nova Scotia.On September 3, 1814, a British fleet from Halifax, Nova Scotia began to lay siege to Maine to re-establish British title to Maine east of the Penobscot River, an area the British had renamed "New Ireland".Carving off "New Ireland" from New England had been a goal of the British government and settlers of Nova Scotia ("New Scotland") since the American Revolution.