Tag Archives: Maryland

Honoring Baron de Kalb and Baseball

Posted on August 19, 2022 by Rob Orrison

On August 19, 1780 the United States lost one of the most influential foreign officers that fought for the new nation during the American Revolution. Johann von Robais, Baron de Kalb migrated to the United States along with the Marquis … Continue reading →

Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Memory, Monuments, Personalities, Preservation, Revolutionary War, Southern Theater | Tagged 1st Maryland Continental, baltimore, Baltimore Orioles, Baron DeKalb, Battle of Camden, Camden, Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site, Marquis de Lafayette, Maryland, Marylanders, Revolutionary War Visitor Center at Camden | 4 Comments

Poet in a Patriot Prison

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Eric Sterner

CONFINEMENT hail! in honour’s justest cause. True to our King, our Country, and our Laws; Opposing anarchy, sedition, strife, And every other bane of social life. These Colonies of British freedom tir’d, Are by the frenzy of distraction fir’d; Rushing … Continue reading →

Posted in Civilian, Personalities, Social History, Uncategorized, Western Frontier | Tagged Connolly Plot, Frederick, Imprisonment, John Connolly, John Smyth, Loyalists, Maryland, Pittsburgh, Poetry, Prison, Tory | Leave a comment

“Rev War Roundtable with ERW” War of 1812

Posted on June 11, 2020 by erwpost

The War of 1812 is considered by some historians as the end of the American Revolutionary Era. From the conflict, the United States will find a war hero and future president, Andrew Jackson and a poem by lawyer Francis Scott … Continue reading →

Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Emerging Revolutionary War, Memory, National Park Service, Personalities, War of 1812 | Tagged Andrew Jackson, Battle of New Orleans, Dan Davis, Emerging Revolutionary War, Fort McHenry, Francis Scott Key, George Best, Harpers Ferry, Jim Bailey, Maryland, Phillip S. Greenwalt, War of 1812 | Leave a comment

Eutaw Springs

Posted on May 8, 2017 by erwguest

Emerging Revolutionary War is pleased to welcome back historian Bert Dunkerly, who is the co-author (with Irene B. Boland) of the upcoming book; “Eutaw Springs; The Final Battle of the American Revolution’s Southern Campaign” slated to be released this month. … Continue reading →

Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, British Leadership, Campaigns, Common Soldier, Continental Leadership, Memory, Militia (Loyalist) Leadership, Militia (Patriot) Leadership, National Park Service, Preservation, Revolutionary War, Southern Theater | Tagged 1781, Camden, Eutaw Springs, Guilford Court House, Hobkirk's Hill, Light Horse Harry Lee, Loyalist, Maryland, militia, Nathanael Greene, Ninety-Six, South Carolina, Virginia, William Washington | 2 Comments

The Other German

Posted on July 8, 2015 by Phill Greenwalt

Baron Frederich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand Steuben or Frederich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben or more simply Baron von Steuben, may be the most recognizable German to serve with the American army during the American Revolution.* His merits, pedigree, … Continue reading →

Posted in Emerging Civil War, Revolutionary War | Tagged Banastre Tarleton, Baron von Steuben, Battle of Camden, Bethesda Presbyterian Churchyard, Camden, Continental Army, Delaware, George Washington, Horatio Gates, Johann de Kalb, Lord Charles Cornwallis, Maryland, North Carolina, Robert Mills, South Carolina, Valley Forge, Washington Monument | 5 Comments

James Monroe at War

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Phill Greenwalt

Part Two With an excess of officers in the Continental Army and little prospect of getting a field command, James Monroe resigned his commission in 1779. He became a Lieutenant-Colonel of Virginia forces, but was unable to recruit enough … Continue reading →

Posted in Emerging Civil War, Revolutionary War | Tagged baltimore, Battle of Bladensburg, Benedict, British Invasion 1814, Fort McHenry, Independence Day, James Madison, James Monroe, James Monroe Museum, Maryland, Monroe Doctrine, President James Monroe, Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War Wednesdays, Scott Harris, Society of Cincinnati, Thomas Jefferson, Treaty of Ghent, War of 1812, Washington D.C. | 2 Comments