Question: HMS Diligent participated in the expedition that was mounted during the Revolutionary war by which group?

 The flotilla of 19 warships and 25 smaller support vessels sailed from Boston on July 19, 1779 for the upper Penobscot Bay in the District of Maine carrying a ground expeditionary force of more than 1,000 colonial Marines and militiamen.  Also included was a 100-man artillery detachment under the command of Lt. Colonel Paul Revere.  The Expedition's goal was to reclaim control of what is now mid-coast Maine from the British who had seized it a month earlier and renamed it New Ireland.  It was the largest American naval expedition of the war.  The fighting took place both on land and at sea in and around the mouth of the Penobscot and Bagaduce Rivers at what is today Castine, Maine over a period of three weeks in July and August of 1779.  One of its greatest victories of the war for the British, the Expedition was also the United States' worst naval defeat until Pearl Harbor 162 years later in 1941. The Penobscot Expedition was a 44-ship American naval task force mounted during the Revolutionary War by the Provincial Congress of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. <SEP> HMS "Swan" was the lead ship in the 14-gun "Swan" class of ship sloops, to which design 25 vessels were built in the 1760s and 1770s; she was launched on 21 November 1767.  She bore the name HMS "Explosion" between 1779 and 1783 whilst being used as a fireship.  She served during both the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary War before being laid up in 1801; she was sold for disposal in 1814. <SEP> HMS "Diligent" was a brig the Royal Navy purchased in 1777.  The Continental Navy captured her in May 1779 and took her into service as the USS "Diligent".  She then participated in the disastrous Penobscot Expedition where her crew her crew had to scuttled her in August to prevent the British from capturing her. <SEP> Logan's Raid was a military expedition early in the Northwest Indian War.  In October 1786, under orders from George Rogers Clark, General Benjamin Logan led mounted Kentucky militia against several Shawnee towns in the Ohio Country along the Little Miami and Mad River, occupied primarily by noncombatants, since most warriors had left to defend the villages of Chief Little Turtle from a separate force moving up the Wabash River under the command of General George Rogers Clark.  Logan seized and burned thirteen villages, full of mostly women and children, destroying the food supplies, and killing or capturing many, including the aged Chief Moluntha who was soon murdered by one of Logan's men, reportedly in retaliation for the Battle of Blue Licks in the American Revolutionary War.  Moluntha had recently signed the Treaty of Fort Finney at the beginning of the year, and had raised an American flag over his lodge.  When Logan's force attacked, he had calmly surrendered himself and his family, holding a copy of the treaty as a testament to his peaceful relationship with the United States.  Militia Colonel Hugh McGary had participated in the Battle of Blue Licks in August 1782, and when the weak resistance offered by the Shawnee villagers had ended, he approached the elderly chief and asked if he had been present at the battle.  "Moluntha had not been there, but he misunderstood the question and seemed to indicate otherwise.  McGary, a hotheaded soldier whose irresponsibility had been a cause of that defeat, angrily felled the old chief with a hatchet and, as he tried to regain his feet, killed him with a second blow and scalped him."  Logan's Raid and the death of their chief angered the Shawnees, who retaliated by further increasing their attacks on the whites, escalating the war.