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The regiment participated in the Philadelphia Campaign which occurred during 1777-1778 and the Southern Theater which occurred during 1775–1782. The 7th Maryland Regiment was involved in the major battles including: Battle of Brandywine, Battle of Germantown, Battle of Monmouth, Battle of Camden and the Battle of Guilford Court House.
1st Maryland Regiment. Colonel William Smallwood. (State regiment assigned to the Main Army, July 6, 1776; placed on the Continental establishment, August 17, 1776). 2nd Maryland Regiment (Separate state companies assigned to the Main Army, July 6-August 15, 1776; placed on the Continental establishment, August 17, 1776). German Battalion (8th ...
During the American Revolutionary War, Delaware raised several units of militia in support of the Patriot side of the war. In the War of 1812 , all of the Delaware volunteer units saw combat at Lewes , where they comprised the majority of an American force that drove off a Royal Navy squadron seeking control of the Delaware River. [ 5 ]
(Maryland counted those portions of the German Battalion and the Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment that were raised in Maryland as the equivalent of an 8th Maryland regiment). 1st Maryland Regiment (1777) (Reauthorized September 16, 1776. Disbanded 15 November 1783). 2nd Maryland Regiment (1777) (Reauthorized September 16, 1776. Disbanded 15 ...
The aggregate strength of the regiment at formation [1] was 784 officers and men. Call of duty hurried it to the field before it had received its tenth company, the men recruited for which were mustered into other regiments. The tenth Company, K, was composed of the re-enlisted men of the Tenth Maryland (a six months' organization), and joined ...
Painting by John Trumbull of General George Washington Resigning His Commission as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, at the Maryland State House on State Circle in Annapolis on December 23, 1783, after the end of the Revolutionary War and the ratification of the Treaty of Paris.
Infantry units which remained in the British Isles during the war included the 2nd Foot (Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)), the 11th Foot (Devonshires), the 12th Foot (Suffolk), the 25th Foot (King's Own Scottish Borderers) at Sussex, the 32nd Foot at Cornwall, the 36th Foot at Herefordshire, the 39th Foot at East Middlesex, the 41st Foot ...
Hartley's Additional Continental Regiment was an American infantry unit of the Continental Army that served for two years during the American Revolutionary War. The regiment was authorized in January 1777 and Thomas Hartley was appointed its commander. The unit comprised eight companies from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware.