Lord Stirling's Last Stand Around the Cortelyou House

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At the Battle of Long Island, in August of 1776, Stirling led the 1st Maryland Regiment in repeated attacks against a superior British force at the Old Stone House near what is today named the Gowanus Canal and took heavy casualties.

Keywords

American Revolutionary War, Lord Stirling, Battle of Long Island, Old Stone House

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1763-1788 American Revolution Places, Events in New York History

Source

Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 5) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)

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