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The Maryland 400 were members of the 1st Maryland Regiment who repeatedly charged a numerically superior British force during the Battle of Long Island during the Revolutionary War, sustaining heavy casualties, but allowing General Washington to successfully evacuate the bulk of his troops to Manhattan.
22 sie 2014 · Only the heroic stand by a small group of Marylanders–now known as the Maryland 400–held the British at bay long enough to allow the Continental Army to escape total destruction, at the cost of many Maryland lives.
3 lip 2014 · At the Battle of Brooklyn (also called the Battle of Long Island), the heroic stand of the “Maryland 400” held back the British Army, allowing the rest of the Americans to escape total destruction, at the cost of many Maryland lives. You can read biographies of all known Maryland 400 soldiers here.
The Maryland Battalion distinguished itself at the Battle of Long Island by single-handedly covering the retreat of the American forces against numerically superior British and Hessian forces, with a group of men memorialized as the Maryland 400.
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 edge of Long Island in present-day Brooklyn.
27 sie 2017 · During one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the Revolutionary War, the actions of these brave soldiers would earn them the venerated name of the Maryland 400. At Long Island, the 1st Delaware Regiment (pictured here) fought alongside the Marylanders on the American right flank.
The Maryland 400 at the Battle of Brooklyn . New York Public Library Digital Collection. On August 15, 1776, Thomas Stone relayed reports from the Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia to the newly independent state capital of Maryland in Annapolis that a major battle was brewing in the vicinity of New York City.
