The Battle of St. George’s Island marks the first time that the British forces recruit enslaved people to join the British army, promising them freedom.
Maryland militia repels invading British troops on St. George’s Island attempting to land on the Maryland mainland. There are a handful of other British incursions, but St. George’s is the largest Revolutionary War battle in Maryland.
George Washington resigns his Army commission to Congress in the Annapolis State House in 1783, moving the new country away from dictatorship and toward civilian control of the military.
Smallwood’s Maryland Battalion, Washington’s most important troops (the Maryland Line), saves his army at the Battle of Brooklyn in August, 1776. The Army is integrated.
Elizabeth Ann Seton, born 1774, becomes first person born in US canonized as Catholic Saint in 1975.
We acknowledge the enduring presence of many American Indian tribes who once lived in Maryland and who now, having lost their lands, live in a diaspora. Read more.
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