signed on Maryland's behalf. Although no major Battles of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) occurred in Maryland itself, (although the British...

office. Religious toleration would not be restored in Maryland until after the American Revolution. Maryland had long practiced an uneasy form of religious...

joined in supporting the American Revolution against Great Britain. In 1781, Maryland was the 13th signatory to the Articles of Confederation. The province's...

over the Maryland Journal, Goddard was very active in the American Revolution in regards to printing and was a strong supporter of the Americans. During...

The Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), formally the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (NSSAR), is a federally chartered patriotic...

The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful...

an American Founding Father, merchant, and politician from Maryland during the Revolutionary Era. In 1779, Hanson was elected as a delegate to the Continental...

commander-in-chief of the Continental Army to the Congress of the Confederation, then meeting in the Maryland State House at Annapolis, Maryland, on December...

Loyalist in Maryland during the American Revolution. He was the son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, the third Proprietor Governor of Maryland (1699–1751)...

Baltimore. Before the English courts could rule on the case, the American Revolution broke out. Maryland, initially the most Loyalist colony of the original thirteen...

Baltimore 1920 The Continental Army (describes Pulaski's Legion) The Pulaski Legion in the American Revolution, Review in The Sarmatian Review The Pulaski Legion...

1776 during the early days leading up to the American Revolution. After 1775, it was officially named the Assembly of Freemen. In 1774, the committees...

The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (often abbreviated as DAR or NSDAR) is a lineage-based membership service organization for women...

president of Maryland's Council of Safety, the Patriot body established to organize Maryland's military forces for the Revolution (1775–1777). When, in 1776,...

the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British...

The final session of the revolutionary Annapolis Convention in 1776 served as Maryland's first constitutional convention. They drafted a declaration of...

an American lawyer from Annapolis, Maryland. During the American Revolution he was a member of the council of safety, a delegate to the Maryland convention...

adoption in 1776 until the Maryland Constitution of 1851 took effect on July 4 of that year. In the months before the beginning of the American Revolutionary...

sides in the American Revolution. Many of the small German states in Europe supported the British. King George III of Britain was simultaneously the ruler...

an American politician and plantation owner from Maryland and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He supported the American Revolution, served...

Continental Association; commander of the Maryland militia in 1776; and elected first (non-Colonial) governor of Maryland in 1777. Throughout his career, Johnson...

represented in it. The pamphlet sold widely and was influential in the development of colonial opinion in the early stages of the American Revolution. In the aftermath...

of Maryland, Doubleday, New York (1929) Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (2nd ed. 1992) pp. 230–319. ———. The Ordeal...

Maryland to Virginia, where they took part in scouting the frontier in present-day Kentucky and Tennessee alongside Daniel Boone and other American pioneers...

Veteran of the American Revolutionary War and Maryland Pastor. He served for the duration of the Revolutionary war and is credited with saving the life of...

the United States, who served as a lawyer and judge from Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Rogers was a delegate for Maryland to the Continental Congress in 1775—1776...

After a forced resignation from the Cabinet in 1811, Smith served as president of the American Bible Society and the Maryland Agriculture Society. Retired...

The Republic of Maryland (also known variously as the Independent State of Maryland, Maryland-in-Africa, and Maryland in Liberia) was a country in West...

Court for the District of Maryland. Born on October 31, 1740, in Abingdon, Province of Maryland, British America, Paca entered school at the Philadelphia...

the Patriot victory in the war. As with other colonies in British America, Maryland was bitterly divided by the American Revolution. Members of the existing...