Patrick K. O’Donnell: How an Elite Unit of Iron Men Saved [G] Washington’s Army and Changed History

Breitbart ^ | July 4, 2017 | John Hayward

[huldah1776]

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Washington’s Immortals tells the story of a heroic regiment that saved the Continental Army from destruction at the Battle of Brooklyn by holding the British at bay. Despite the pivotal importance of their sacrifice, the regimental dead are buried in a mass grave with only the most minimal markings, their story largely unknown to the modern public.

“About 2010, I was in New York City, and the regimental commander I was with in the Battle of Fallujah, Colonel Willie Buell, is assigned there. He’s part of the Council on Foreign Relations. He just called me up and he said, ‘Hey, Pat, what do you want to do? Do you want to go the Met?’ I said, ‘No, how about we do a battlefield tour of Brooklyn?’” he recalled.

The tour began at Battle Hill in Green-Wood Cemetery, where one of the largest battles of the Revolution began in August 1776.

“We walked up and down the hills at Green-Wood, and then we walked through some alleys in Brooklyn. We found this old stone house park that’s still there. The original house that was in 1776, they took the stones from that house and reconstructed it,” he said.

“At that house was really one of the epic small unit engagements in American history that nobody knows about. It’s the stand of the Maryland 400 – or the Marylanders or Washington’s Immortals or the Immortals – against the British Army. Their stand, which was a series of epic bayonet charges, literally saved a large portion of Washington’s army on the Battle of Long Island,” O’Donnell said.

[huldah1776]

Washington's 400. I will forever think of them as I do the 3/5 Dark Horse Marines who fought in Afghanistan before my son arrived.

Happy, peaceful, Independence Day, America!

[fidelis]

What a great story. Thanks for sharing.

[bgill]

Sure, but what did they do to help out at Gettysburg?

[Shark24]

Thanks for posting. Happy Independance Day from SoCal!

[LS]

Washington at Trenton, riding between British & Continentals both firing volleys: “Come parade with me, you fine fellows!”

[2banana]

Not too many snowflakes back then..

[pigsmith]

Bfl

[huldah1776]

LOL.

[chb]

Another good read which is available gratis on the web at:

http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyschoha/roscoes.html

The author interviewed many primary sources, and details the struggles of what was then a frontier community against tories and indians encouraged by the British in Canada.

[huldah1776]

wow, totally awesome. Thanks!!!!

[Agamemnon]

I found this in the archives, that literally 15 months before the battle of Long Island, somebody foreshadows what these guys are going to go through in a letter, and they say they’re going to go up against thousands, just like the Spartans did against the Persians. It’s signed ‘Agamemnon,’ who was the king of Greece at the time. It’s just fascinating,” said O’Donnell.

Yup. That was me alright!

Happy 4th!

FReegards!

[fella]

The Maryland Line.

[teeman8r]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1aZyYYm2k&list=PL7D3F2004948933BA&index=7

here is a link to a Public Access Show on the Maryland 400

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[cpdiii]

I stopped at a graveyard in Massachusetts some years ago. History interests me greatly.

I was looking at the ages of the dead and was struck by something odd. It was a very old graveyard. Their was an abundance of young women of child bearing age that died. That was quite normal as child birth has a high rate of mortality in the young without modern medicine. I also noted a similar rate of death by age in the men. That puzzled me until I realized this was during The War of Independence when I looked at the dates of death of the men. Many were without doubt patriot soldiers in The War of Independence.

I was humbled. As I left the graveyard I turned and saluted.

[huldah1776]

Thank you! I haven’t always done the math, but I will pay more attention from now on. I am a little north of philly near trenton and when I get the chance I will visit the historic cemetery nearby and although many are weathered beyond reading, the church does have the records printed alongside.