Comments on: Independence Day 2007 http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2007/07/04/independence-day-2007/ A weblog ("blog") about Great Falls, Montana! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:19:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Walter Greenspan http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2007/07/04/independence-day-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-90066 Walter Greenspan Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:41:08 +0000 http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2007/07/04/independence-day-2007/#comment-90066 On this, our Independence Day, please take a moment to remember the Marylanders and what the Marylanders did at the Battle of Brooklyn. The mostly Roman Catholic Marylanders were the rear guard allowing Washington’s mostly Protestant Continental Army to escape across the East River and then northwards, and without their courage and devotion to duty, the Continental Army would have been no more. See: http://www.brooklynonline.com/bol/history/battle.xhtml Maryland is known as the “Old Line State” because the Marylanders held the line at Brooklyn Heights. On this, our Independence Day, please take a moment to remember the Marylanders and what the Marylanders did at the Battle of Brooklyn.

The mostly Roman Catholic Marylanders were the rear guard allowing Washington’s mostly Protestant Continental Army to escape across the East River and then northwards, and without their courage and devotion to duty, the Continental Army would have been no more.

See:
http://www.brooklynonline.com/bol/history/battle.xhtml

Maryland is known as the “Old Line State” because the Marylanders held the line at Brooklyn Heights.

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