Even fewer are aware of the involvement of the men from St. Known as the Battle of Brooklyn or the Battle of Long Island, it was where Maryland would earn her nickname ‘‘The Old Line State.”įew are aware that the war could have ended that day had it not been for the ‘‘Maryland 400” who sacrificed themselves to allow the colonial army to escape.
27, 1776, the first major battle of the Revolutionary War was fought at Brooklyn, N.Y.
