News & Community
200th Anniversary March of the Defenders
Maryland National Guard's 175 Infantry re-creates historic march from Patterson Park to North Point.
By Ron Cassie. Posted on September 11, 2014, 1:32 pm
-Ron Cassie
As part of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of North Point Thursday morning, 500 members of the Maryland National Guard's 175th Infantry Regiment re-created the 6-mile march that the Maryland Militia took 200 years ago to engage the British redcoats, who had landed at the end of the North Point Peninsula in preparation for the Battle of Baltimore.
The march began atop Hampstead Hill in Patterson Park, headed down Eastern Avenue through Highlandtown—where throngs of nearby school children greeted the soldiers with waving flags—toward a final destination at Battle Acre Park in Dundalk.
The Battle of North Point is considered critical to the ultimate defense of the Baltimore in the War of 1812, and not all the volunteer citizen/soldiers of the Maryland Militia returned home.
(Don't forget: the Hampstead Hill Festival, with a wide range of history and entertainment, including a performance of the not-to-be-missed, Capital Fringe Festival award-winning "1814: The Rock Opera," takes place this weekend at Patterson Park.)
Ron Cassie is a senior editor for Baltimore, where he covers the environment, education, medicine, politics, and city life.
Read more from Ron Follow @ron_cassie
You May Also Like
-
News & Community
Second Trial in Freddie Gray Case Postponed Indefinitely
Appeal hearing on witness testimony of fellow police officer could delay all six trials.
-
News & Community
The Buddy System
Pikesville mom creates software for kids with reading difficulties.
-
News & Community
Mr. Universe
At the Space Telescope Science Institute, Kenneth Sembach is leading the next great mission into the cosmos.
-
News & Community
The Epic Southeast Baltimore Christmas Church Tour
A photo and history tour inside Canton, Highlandtown, Fells Point and Little Italy's oldest immigrant Catholic churches.
-
News & Community
Saying Goodbye
We bid farewell to some of the notable Marylanders we lost in 2015.
-
News & Community
Second Police Trial in Freddie Gray Case Postponed
Key witness question remains as van driver faces second-degree murder charge.