Battles
of the First Maryland
-as
Smallwood's Battalion
27 August 1776
Battle of Long Island: First American troops
to use the bayonet against the British. To prevent the Army being surrounded and crushed,
400 Marylanders were ordered to hold off the British encircling movement to allow the rest of the army to escape. These brave Marylanders repeatedly bayonet charged the thousands of British coming at them 6 times and drove them back until numbers overwhelmed them and they were slaughtered. Of these "Immortal" 400, 256 were killed, around 135 were wounded or captured, and only 9 made it back to the main fortification line. Their sacrifice allowed the rest of Washington's army to escape disaster, enabling
the retreat from Brooklyn to Manhattan Island,
thus preserving the fledgling American Army.
16 September 1776
Harlem Heights, NY
28 October 1776
White Plains, NY
16 November 1776
Fort Washington, NY
26 December 1776
Trenton, NJ
-as the
First Maryland Regiment
3 January 1777
Princeton, NJ
1777
Winter Encampment Morristown, NJ. (6
January 1777 thru 28 May 1777)
22 August 1777 Sullivan's
raid against Staten Island, NY
11 September 1777
Brandywine, PA
4 October
1777 Germantown, PA
1777-1778
Winter Encampment Wilmington, DE. Smallwood and the Marylanders
spent the winter in Wilmington, DE. The First Maryland
rejoined Washington and the main army in June 1778 at Valley Forge. (Washington
and main army encamped at Valley Forge 19
December 1777 thru 20 June 1778)
28 June 1778
Battle of Monmouth Courthouse, NJ
16 September 1778
Phillips Heights, NY
1778-1779
Winter Encampment Middlebrook, NJ
16 July 1779
Stony Point: About 150 Maryland volunteers
participate in the attack on Stoney Point on
the Hudson River led by Gen. Anthony Wayne.
The fort was taken totally with the bayonet.
1779-1780
Winter Encampment
Morristown, NJ (1 December 1779 22 June
1780)
First
Maryland Regiment Transferred to the Southern
Department
16 April 1780
Leave for Charleston, SC, with 12 field pieces
16 August 1780
Battle of Camden, SC. The American militia are totally routed and the gallantry of the Marylanders
saves the army from total destruction.
17 January 1781
Battle of Cowpens, SC. Brig. Gen. Daniel Morgan and Col. John
Eager Howard gain a significant victory against Banastre
Tarleton. First Maryland's legendary 'Right About Face, Fire, Charge Bayonet" broke the British forces and led to the complete destruction of Tarleton's Army (the entire left wing of Cornwallis' force).
15 March 1781
Battle of Guilford Courthouse, NC. The First
Maryland's most famous battle. The Americans
lose the field but gallantly attack the best
British regiments with the bayonet and force
Cornwallis to fire artillery at his own men to
save the day.
25 April 1781
Hobkirk s Hill, SC.
22 May 1781
Ninety-Six, SC. Siege of Ninety Six begins on
22 May 1781; General Nathanael Green ends the
siege on 19 June 1781.
8 September 1781
Eutaw Springs, SC.
23 August 1782
Combahee Ferry, SC. Last engagement of any
size.
