200th Anniversary and Rededication of the Monument to Maryland’s First Fallen in the Battle of Baltimore  

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For More Information Contact:

Col. Charles Kohler
Maryland National Guard Public Affairs Office
ng.md.mdarng.list.pao@mail.mil
Phone: 410-250-7242[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]What: The Maryland National Guard and the Society of War of 1812 will host a wreath laying ceremony in honor of the first member of Maryland’s 5th Regiment to fall in the Battle of Baltimore. More than two hundred years-ago, Pvt. Aquila Randall a member of the Maryland Militia (today’s historic 175th Infantry Regiment of the Maryland National Guard) fell in 1814.

A witness reported that “Captain Howard formed his company of Maryland Militia across the [North Point] road and delivered his fire, until peremptorily ordered to retire, when the his unit fell back in good order, leaving one of its gallant members dead on the field” [Pvt. Aquilla Randall]. This seemingly minor skirmish played a much larger role, because the Americans’ fire mortally wounded the dynamic British Maj. Gen. Ross, which unnerved the British troops who watched in horror as their beloved commander was carried back through their lines.

On July 21, 1817, Capt. Benjamin Howard led his veterans in a six-mile march from Baltimore to the North Point battlefield. There they dedicated a monument to the memory of their own Pvt. Randall, who died in the battle. “My friends,” Howard remarked at the dedication, “We have done: we commit this monument to destiny and time… I can picture to myself the sensation of those who in far distant days will contemplate this monument and the melancholy event which has caused our assemblage at this spot… It is here where our citizens stood arrayed in soldiers’ garb… To mark this spot be then our care.”

When: Friday, July 21, 2017, at 10:00 a.m.

Where: The Aquila Randall Monument is located on Old North Point Road .1 miles south of Eleanor Terrace on the left when traveling south in Dundalk, MD.

Google Map Grid Coordinates: 39° 16.392′ N, 76° 28.169′ W

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