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But the Maryland militia had likewise fled, all too typical of this type of soldier during the Revolution, an experience which gave Morgan little confidence in militia in general, as he watched other instances of their breaking in hot engagements.
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Maryland and militia
Similar orders were given to the Maryland militia.
* 1877 – After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
Stuart volunteered to be aide-de-camp to Col. Robert E. Lee and accompanied Lee with a company of U. S. Marines from the Washington Navy Yard and four companies of Maryland militia.
The Pennsylvania governor demanded Maryland arrest Cresap for murder ; the Maryland governor named him a captain in their militia instead.
With 15, 000 militia provided by the governors of Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, Washington rode at the head of an army to suppress the insurgency.
Among the pro-Confederates in the Maryland militia was Lieutenant John Merryman.
John Washington, the immigrant ancestor and great-grandfather of George Washington, took a party from Virginia into Maryland, and with Maryland militia surrounded a Susquehannock fort.
With him was a body of North Carolina militia, plus reinforcements from Virginia, consisting of 3, 000 Virginia militia, a Virginia State regiment, a corps of Virginian eighteen-month men and recruits for the Maryland Line, totaling between 4, 000-5, 000 men.
Rall's charge scattered the militia on the American right, leaving the flank of the Maryland and New York regiments exposed as they poured musket fire onto the British attackers, which temporarily halted the British advance.
He personally led the British troops ashore in Benedict, Maryland, and marched through Upper Marlboro, Maryland, to the attack on the Americans at the Battle of Bladensburg on 24 August 1814, causing the hastily organised militia of the American army to collapse into a rout.
Camped about a mile ( 1. 6 km ) away was William Smallwood's Maryland militia, about 2, 100 relatively inexperienced troops.
When the Americans realized they were approaching the British force, they formed two lines, with the militia in the front line and the North Carolina, Maryland and Virginia regulars in the second line.
He served in the Maryland militia during the American Revolutionary War as private, lieutenant, and later as captain.
Violent street battles occurred in Maryland between the striking workers and the Maryland militia.
The Baltimore riot of 1861 ( also called the Pratt Street Riot and the Pratt Street Massacre ) was a conflict that took place on April 19, 1861, in Baltimore, Maryland between Confederate sympathizers and members of the Massachusetts militia en route to Washington for Federal service.
Commanding general of the New Jersey militia during the Revolutionary War, a delegate to the Continental Congress, and a U. S. Senator, Philemon Dickinson was born at " Crosiadore ," near Trappe, Maryland on April 5, 1739, a younger brother of John Dickinson.
The Maryland State Police and militia were called out by Governor Ritchie to assist, which resulted in further mob violence and arrests on the Eastern Shore which damaged Lane's reputation.
Maryland and had
Colonel Benjamin Ford wrote to Morgan from Wilmington that he understood a Mrs. Sanderson from Maryland had obtained permission from Smallwood to visit Philadelphia, and would return on May 26th, escorted by several officers from Maryland `` belonging to the new levies in the British service ''.
In Maryland the Harford County Board of Education had prepared a desegregation plan which the Court approved but which a plaintiff had challenged ; ;
In 1995, Art Modell, who had purchased the Browns in 1961, announced he was relocating the team to Baltimore, Maryland.
Many colonial settlers came to Delaware from Maryland and Virginia, which had been experiencing a population boom.
Most of the free African-American families in Delaware before the Revolution had migrated from Maryland to find more affordable land.
Skinner and Key were there to negotiate the release of prisoners, one of whom was Dr. William Beanes, a resident of Upper Marlboro, Maryland who had been arrested after putting rowdy stragglers under citizen's arrest.
He won all the same states that his father had won in the election of 1800: the New England states, New Jersey, and Delaware, as well as parts of New York and a majority of Maryland.
Virginia's land claims had partially overlapped with those by Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and possibly others.
Hanson had no extended formal education while growing up in Maryland, but he read broadly in both English and Latin.
In 1775, he was a delegate to the Maryland Convention, an extralegal body convened after the colonial assembly had been prorogued.
" Good Charlotte, from Maryland, had three successive top ten albums beginning with The Young and the Hopeless in 2002.
On 21 February 2008 Philips had completed its acquisition of VISICU Baltimore, Maryland through the merger of its indirect wholly owned subsidiary into VISICU.
On September 14, 2001, an Indian American motorist and three family members were pulled over and ticketed by a Maryland state trooper because their car had broken taillights.
By age five, she had begun composing instrumental pieces on piano and, while living in Rockville, Maryland, she won a full scholarship to the Preparatory Division of the Peabody Conservatory of Music.
The state of Maryland had levied a tax on banks not chartered by the state ; the tax applied, state judges ruled, to the Bank of the United States chartered by Congress in 1816.
Only Maryland and New York had yet to authorize independence.
When the Continental Congress had adopted Adams's radical May 15 preamble, Maryland's delegates walked out and sent to the Maryland Convention for instructions.
He knew that the Dutch had established deeds for the lands east of the river ( New Jersey ), but not for the lands to the west ( Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania ).
Word of her exploits had encouraged her family, and biographers agree that she became more confident with each trip to Maryland.
The girl had left behind a twin brother and a loving home in Maryland.
Students of Professor John F. Banzhaf III from the George Washington University Law School, collectively known as Banzhaf's Bandits, found four residents of the state of Maryland willing to put their names on a case and sought to have Agnew repay the state $ 268, 482 — the amount it was said he had taken in bribes.
The remaining state, Maryland, had five Federalist representatives to three Republicans ; one of its Federalist representatives voted for Jefferson, forcing that state delegation also to cast a blank ballot.
Maryland and fled
Following the assassination, Booth fled on horseback to southern Maryland, eventually making his way to a farm in rural northern Virginia 12 days later, where he was tracked down.
After the Civil War broke out, Conway located several dozen of his father's slaves in Washington, DC., who had fled from Virginia, and escorted them through Maryland — still a slave state — to safety in Ohio.
Jackson enveloped the right flank of the Union Army under Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks and pursued it as it fled across the Potomac River into Maryland.
President James Madison and the entire government fled the city, and went North, to the town of Brookeville, Maryland.
As the 5th Maryland exchanged fire with British infantry in cover on three sides, Schutz's and Ragan's drafted militia regiments broke and fled under a barrage of Congreve rockets.
Winder issued confused orders for three of Captain Burch's guns to fall back rather than cover Sterrett's retreat, and the 5th Maryland and the rest of Stansbury's brigade fled the field.
They too fled the capital, and scattered through Maryland and Virginia.
During the three years when it was officially Warrosquoake Shire, Richard Bennett led the small Puritan community to neighboring Nansemond, and later fled with them to Maryland.
The Maryland troops rallied briefly to fire a few rounds and then fled.
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