. Book of the Royal blue . 3,500 of the enemy at bay. England may boast of her Blenheim,Louisburg, Quebec, Trafalgar and Water-loo; France of her Marengo, Austerlitz,Jena, Friedland and Wagram; Germanyof her Rossbach, Lissa, Minden, Sadowaand Sedan, but nowhere on the worldsbloody fields of military conflict was theredisplayed a more sublime and desperatecourage than that shown by Marylandsstern battalion on that e\er-memorable 27thof August, 1776, and to this day the visitorto Brooklyn can be shown the spot wherehalf of the Maryland contingent stemmedthe advance of the whole left wing of theB
. Book of the Royal blue . 3,500 of the enemy at bay. England may boast of her Blenheim,Louisburg, Quebec, Trafalgar and Water-loo; France of her Marengo, Austerlitz,Jena, Friedland and Wagram; Germanyof her Rossbach, Lissa, Minden, Sadowaand Sedan, but nowhere on the worldsbloody fields of military conflict was theredisplayed a more sublime and desperatecourage than that shown by Marylandsstern battalion on that e\er-memorable 27thof August, 1776, and to this day the visitorto Brooklyn can be shown the spot wherehalf of the Maryland contingent stemmedthe advance of the whole left wing of theBritish army, when no other troops wereleft upon the field, and where the best bloodof the state drenched the soil of LongIsland in the defense of their rights andliberties. Let the memorial shaft that has beenerected to their memory be an object ofpride to the citizens of that state — oldMaryland — whose part played in that ever-memorable struggle of eight years for free-dom, was second to none in the ■TOMMONWKALTII- OV THK The Commonwealth The Handsomest Steamer Plying Inland Waters
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