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|   Battle of North Point - Dundalk MD
in Battlefields In 1814 Baltimore's defenders watched about 4,500 British troops march from North Point toward the city. Roughly 3,200 Americans, led by Brigadier General John Stricker, were sent to impede the advance. posted by:  Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 09/19/2020 last visited: 10/17/2021 |
 view galleryS13.4 km | Battle Acre-Dundalk, MD in Battlefields Battle Acre-September 12, 1814-Here General Stricker’s City Brigade inflicted severe losses upon the main body of the British Army. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 12/02/2022 last visited: 12/04/2022 |
 view galleryS13.4 km | At Patapsco Neck -Battle of North Point- Dundalk MD in Battlefields The narrow land shaped by Bear Creek, Bread and Cheese Creek, and Back River was the site of the Battle of North Point, September 12, 1814. Some 3,200 Americans clashed with 4,500 British to delay the advance on Baltimore. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 12/02/2022 last visited: 12/04/2022 |
 view galleryS13.4 km | The Conflict upon this Battle Field-North Point Battlefield - Dundalk MD in Battlefields The conflict upon the North Point Battle Field on September 12, which was followed on the 13 and 14 by the unsuccessful bombardment of Fort McHenry, was the last battle upon American Soil before peace was secured. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 12/03/2022 last visited: 12/04/2022 |
 view galleryS13.4 km | Battle of North Point 1814 - Dundalk MD in Battlefields This one-acre of the North Point Battlefield was set aside in 1839 to commemorate those who risked and gave their lives to defend their homes and country from an invading British Army. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 12/03/2022 last visited: 12/04/2022 |
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| Combat on Pratt Street - Baltimore, MD in Battlefields One of the earliest confrontations of the Civil War took place in downtown Baltimore, led to the death of the first confederate soldier of the war. posted by:  bluesnote location: Maryland date approved: 02/15/2019 last visited: 06/21/2022 |
 view galleryS14.2 km | North Point Battlefield-Dundalk, MD in Battlefields North Point Battlefield on September 12, 1814 is where General John Stricker met the British Army. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 09/09/2022 last visited: 12/04/2022 |
 view galleryS14.8 km | Battle at Fort McHenry - Baltimore MD in Battlefields As a guardian of Baltimore's harbor, Fort McHenry is the site of the successful defense of the city by American forces during the British attack on September 13-14 which inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner". posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 09/19/2020 last visited: 10/17/2021 |
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| Gilmor's Raid-Capturing Cockeysville - Cockeysville, MD in Battlefields Johnson sent 25 mounted troopers under Maj. Harry Gilmor to seize Cockeysville, where they arrived on Sunday, July 10. They set up pickets and burned the Northern Central Railway’s bridge across the Big Gunpowder Falls. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 09/13/2022 last visited: 09/24/2022 |
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| Gilmor's Raid-Burning the Gunpowder River Bridge - Joppa MD in Battlefields On July 6, 1864, Confederate cavalryman cross the Potomac River into Maryland as part of a 12,000 man force under Gen. Jubal A. Early, who planned to attack lightly defended Washington, DC., and draw off part of the Union army menacing Richmond. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/31/2023 last visited: 03/30/2023 |
 view gallerySW17.7 km | Crimea Mansion-The Arrest of Ross Winans - Baltimore MD in Battlefields On May 11, 1861, Union Gen. Benjamin F. Butler's troops occupied the railroad depot southwest of Baltimore at Relay, where a spur of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's main line turned south to Washington. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/30/2023 last visited: 04/02/2023 |
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| Battle of Harve de Grace - Havre de Grace, MD in Battlefields Havre de Grace was caught in the War of 1812 when the British raided the town. One American lost his life, while one British soldier was wounded. The above coordinates are for the state historical marker, near the Concord Lighthouse. posted by: bluesnote location: Maryland date approved: 01/01/2018 last visited: 08/29/2022 |
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| Cooksville Skirmish, Cooksville MD in Battlefields On June 29th, 1863, Confederate calvary under the command of J.E.B. Stuart encountered a detachment of Maryland militia. The Confederates easily defeated their opponents. posted by:  briansnat location: Maryland date approved: 05/30/2008 last visited: 10/16/2022 |
 view galleryS44.1 km | Battle of the Severn - Annapolis, MD in Battlefields The battle of the Severn was fought nearby. It was small battles and revolts like this that eventually escalated into the American Revolution. posted by: bluesnote location: Maryland date approved: 06/22/2021 last visited: 03/08/2022 |
 view galleryNW44.1 km | Engagement at Westminster War at the Almshouse - Westminster MD in Battlefields On June 29, 1863 Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry arrived here on the outskirts of Westminster. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee’s division led the column, which numbered 6,000 including cavalrymen and two horse artillery batteries. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 04/06/2023 last visited: 04/10/2023 |
 view galleryNW44.3 km | Westminster - Westminster MD in Battlefields Confederate forces under Major Harry Gilmor and General Bradley T. Johnson raided the town in 1864. Union forces to and from Gettysburg camped here. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 04/06/2023 last visited: 04/10/2023 |
 view galleryNW44.3 km | Aftermath of Battle-Hospitals and Graves - Westminster, MD in Battlefields After the cavalry engagement here on June 29, 1863, Westminster’s citizens cared for dozens of wounded of both sides. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 04/07/2023 last visited: 04/10/2023 |
 view galleryNW44.4 km | Corbit's Charge “Suicidal Bravery” - Westminster MD in Battlefields Gen. J.E.B. Stuart as the cavalry commander led his force east and north around the Union army. Here, on the afternoon of June 29, Federal and Confederate cavalrymen clashed on the street before you. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 04/07/2023 last visited: 04/10/2023 |
 view galleryNW45.1 km | Westminster Depot-Pressed into Service - Westminster MD in Battlefields On July 1, 1863, Gen. Herman Haupt, chief of U.S. Military Railroads, assumed control here of the Western Maryland Railroad. After a cavalry action in the streets, hungry Confederates raided the warehouses for food for themselves. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 04/06/2023 last visited: 04/10/2023 |
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| Battle of Slippery Hill-August 13, 1813 - Queenstown MD in Battlefields Battle of Slippery Hill August 13, 1813 (War of 1812)-American Videttes skirmished with approximately 300 British troops under the command of Col. Sir Thomas Sidney Beckwith. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/17/2022 last visited: 10/16/2022 |
 view galleryNW59.9 km | Battle of Hanover - Hanover, PA in Battlefields The Battle of Hanover was a Civil War Battle fought in the middle of town in 1863. posted by: bluesnote location: Pennsylvania date approved: 08/02/2020 last visited: 08/26/2022 |
 view gallerySW64.5 km | Battle of Fort Stevens - Washington DC in Battlefields The Battle of Fort Stevens was an American Civil War battle fought July 11–12, 1864 in what is now Northwest Washington, DC, as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864 between forces under Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Early and Union Major General Alexander McDowell McCook. posted by: Don.Morfe location: District of Columbia date approved: 11/08/2020 last visited: 10/17/2021 |
 view galleryW68.9 km | Skirmish at Hyattstown - Hyattstown MD in Battlefields The roadside village of Hyattstown became the front line when Confederate cavalry stationed to the north in Urbana clashed with Union cavalry reconnoitering from Clarksburg to the south on the evening of September 8, 1862. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/29/2023 last visited: 04/02/2023 |
 view galleryW72.7 km | Battle at Sugarloaf Mountain-Mt. Ephraim Crossroads Sharpshooters Hold the Line - Comus MD in Battlefields You are looking at Sugarloaf Mountain, where the running cavalry fight that began in the late afternoon on September 9, 1862, in Barnesville came to a halt. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/29/2023 last visited: 04/02/2023 |
 view galleryE73.1 km | Battle of Cooch's Bridge - Newark, DE in Battlefields The Battle of Cooch's Bridge was fought on September 3, 1777. It was the only American Revolutionary War battle fought on Delaware soil, and is believed to have been the first time that the Stars and Stripes was flown in battle. posted by: Marine Biologist location: Delaware date approved: 05/21/2008 last visited: 01/23/2022 |
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