1st Maryland Regiment
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The 1st Maryland Regiment originated with the authorization of a Maryland Battalion of the Maryland State Troops on 14 January 1776. It was organized in the spring at Baltimore, Maryland and Annapolis
1st Maryland Regiment holding the line at the Battle of Guilford Court House
4 Companies of the Lord Stirling and Mordecai Gist's 1st Maryland, "The Maryland 400" in a rear-guard action, counter-attacked the surprise British breakthrough at the Battle of Long Island 6 times in order to enable of the rest of the brigade to escape. Painting by Alonzo Chappel, 1858.
Battle of Long Island
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The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn and the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, was an action of the American Revolutionary War fought on August 27, 1776, at and near the western e
2004 painting of the battle
General William Howe
General George Washington
The British fleet in the lower bay, published in Harper's Magazine in 1876, depicts a Royal Navy fleet amassing off Staten Island in the summer of 1776