North Point State Battlefield

02/20/2023

On this auspicious holiday to honor our first President, please come out today and enjoy the battlefield park and think of the legacy of our first President and leader of the first War of Independence at the Battlefield of our Second War of Independence.

Thank you George Washington for setting the example for us today to follow. Happy Birthday! May your memory be eternal.

We are open for you to come stroll through the park.

01/01/2023

01/01/2023

View from Battlefield to Battle Acre

01/01/2023

Beautiful day for enjoying our battlefield

09/26/2022

We are pleased to see the cause for recognition of our Black Soldiers continues with WUSA9 doing a news story to elevate the attention of this matter to the community. We pray the VA Administration and Congress will change these outdated rules that prohibit "servants" or "slaves" from being classified as a soldier in the Federal troops when they too put their life at risk in their service to defend our nation. Kudos to Lou Giles of the War of 1812 Society for pushing for change!

Watch the news broadcast on WUSA9 at this link.

An attempt in Maryland to recognize a patriot who fought the British in the war of 1812 has ignited a modern debate about race and military recognition.

09/25/2022

This is something everyone should be appreciative of - recognition of a Patriot of any color.

As a Black soldier in the War of 1812, he was classified a "servant." Now Samuel Neale of Frederick is being denied a U.S. veteran's headstone for that very reason.

09/12/2022

Sept. 12, 1814: About 4,500 British troops march from North Point toward the Baltimore City.

Roughly 3,200 Americans, led by Brigadier General John Stricker, were sent to impede the advance. He positioned his men across a road at a narrow neck of land midway between North Point and Baltimore.

The took place in what is now Dundalk, MD. When the smoke cleared, the Americans had retreated but not before inflicting many British casualties, including the death of the commander Major General Robert Ross.

Though technically a British victory, the stiff American defense surprised the British who failed to pursue, allowing the Americans to join the forces on Hampstead Hill, ready to repel an anticipated attack.

“Brigadier General (John) Stricker took a good position at the junction of the two roads leading from this place to North Point, having his right flanked by Bear Creek and his left by a marsh. He here awaited the approach of the Enemy”-- Major General Samuel Smith to acting Secretary of War James Monroe, September 19, 1814.

[image: aerial illustration of the Battle of North Point; in this view, Back River is in the foreground and Bear Creek is upper left. Image/Richard Schlecht]

Maryland State Parks

06/14/2022

O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, ...

‘The Star Spangled Banner’ became the national anthem by a congressional resolution on March 3, 1931 inspired by the Daughters of 1812 and the ever vigilant Baltimore native Ella Virginia Houck Holloway. Learn of her amazing story and campaign that pushed Ft. McHenry and the Star Spangled Banner to national prominence.

https://www.tapsbugler.com/ella-virginia-houck-holloway-and-the-star-spangled-banner/

05/30/2022

The names of the known fallen. Many were young and sacrificed their lives for their City and Nation to remain free.

5th Regiment:
John Carter Byrd
Richard Cooksey
David Davis
John Gregg
Jacob Haubert
George Jenkins
James H. Marriot
William McClellan
Jacob Merriken
Aquila Randall

27th Regiment:
James Lowry Donaldson, Adjutant
Joseph Burneston Jr.
James Craig
Michael Desk
John Evans
John Jephson
Benjamin Neale
Uriah Prosser
James Richardson
James Wallace
Isaac Woolf

39th Regiment:
William Alexander
Joshua Armstrong
Peter Byard
George Fallier
Andrew Maas
William Ways

51st Regiment:
Cornelius Bell
Benjamin Bond
John Kempson Cox
Thomas Garrett

1st Rifle Battalion:
Lt. Gregorius André
Henry Gough McComas
Daniel Wells Jr.

1st Artillery Regiment:
David Howard
Brian Reynolds

05/30/2022

We are open! Please come visit the battlefield today that saved the nation in 1814. Say their names, remember the fallen heroes. Here the soldiers fell and died saving Baltimore from the British attack. Armed and face to face, the Marylanders withheld the forces of the greatest naval power at that time. Troops that had defeated Napoleon and local Baltimore farmers, workers, and laborers fought professionally trained soldiers and had victory of the day. But sadly some gave their all in that battle.