Maryland 400 Revolutionary militia to be remembered. August 21, 2024 Theodore W. General The Old Stone House ... preventing the utter defeat of the colonies at the outset of the war. ...

The event ties into the Southern Maryland National Heritage Area’s mission to preserve the region’s Revolutionary past, including the 1781 Battle of St. George Island, where local militia ...

MARYLAND'S CORNSTALK MILITIA.; An Amusing Tradition of the Revolutionary War. Share full article. April 20, 1896.

Flag-draped coffins with the remains of American Revolutionary War soldiers in South Carolina get prepared for reburial. (Sarah Nell Blackwell/South Carolina Battleground Preservation Trust) The ...

Forensics labs need Americans with 18th-century ancestral ties to the states of Maryland, Delaware or North Carolina to come forward for genetic testing.

More than 83,000 pension records from the Revolutionary War require preservation ahead of commemorations of the conflict's 250th anniversary in 2026. ... Military History Revolutionary War.

Now retired, she’s begun digging into Revolutionary War pension files, where she uncovered the story of her fourth great grandfather, a member of the Maryland militia who was wounded twice ...

Maryland may be well known for its Civil War history, but it isn’t without notable events from the Revolutionary War era. In May 1781, General Anthony Wayne’s troops encamped at Bruceville ...

At the Battle of St. George Island in 1776, the local Maryland militia under Capt. Rezin Beall hid in the bushes on the shoreline and fired on the British, preventing them from landing a second time.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (DC News Now) — This Saturday, everyone is invited to a Revolutionary War-era reenactment at the Hagerstown City Park. Living historians will showcase military drills on the ...

Revolutionary War ammo unearthed. Musket balls from 1775 battle found. July 21, 2024 at 4:00 a.m. by MICHAEL CASEY The Associated Press ...

Museum curator Nikki Walsh holds up two Revolutionary War musket balls, which are believed to be fired at the British by colonial militia men, at Minute Man National Historical Park, Monday, July ...