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The Maryland 400 In The Battle Of Long Island, 1776 | 
 enlarge | Author: Linda Davis Reno
Publisher: McFarland
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 783789
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7 x 0.7
ISBN: 0786435372
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.332
EAN: 9780786435371
ASIN: 0786435372
Publication Date: June 18, 2008
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This work chronicles the story of 400 young men who willingly and knowingly sacrificed themselves to save the Continental Army at the Battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776. Holding back 20,000 British and Hessian soldiers, they allowed their comrades to retreat and may have saved the Revolution from immediate defeat.
This exhaustively researched account introduces the reader to the background of the battle and the stories of the individuals who fought that day, and includes biographies with extensive quoted material in addition to a general historic overview.
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 This is a fascinating and well-written history. I highly recommend it. August 6, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
In The Maryland 400 in the Battle of Long Island, 1776, author Linda Reno calls much needed attention to the important role her native Maryland played in the American Revolution. Too long ignored as an unremarkable little state, Maryland is, to the contrary, a little state with a giant history. But few Americans know that history, and too many transplant revisionists with political axes to grind, in addition to having culturally cleansed Maryland, have reduced her tumultuous past to a dull fiction. The Marylanders who fought at the Battle of Long Island in the summer of 1776, as Walt Whitman once observed, were "the flower of some of the finest families of the South." Beautifully attired in scarlet and buff uniforms or robust hunting shirts, their courage unmatched, they, as one participant in the battle wrote, "shamed" the Northern troops, many of whom displayed cowardice and fled the British and their barbarous hirelings, the Hessians. The Marylanders valiantly held their ground against superior numbers who, in the main, fully intended to give no quarter to the Americans.
In this lively account of the battle that almost cost the colonies their freedom, Ms. Reno emphasizes that "much work remains to be done" to determine just who the Maryland 400 were. Presenting, company by company, her findings to date, she offers the caveat that "the search continues." What is certain is that a group of young Marylanders un-wavering in the face of unspeakable butchery took their stand at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn, New York on August 27, 1776, winning the affection and gratitude of General George Washington and a nascent American Republic that would have died aborning were it not for their heart-breaking sacrifice.
 NOT a reliable source July 26, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Unfortunately, despite the author's honorable intentions, this book is completely inaccurate and should not be taken as a reliable account of the "Maryland 400." It appears to be based entirely on sources found online rather than on original 18th-century documents.
Reno's list of the officers, men, and companies of the Maryland Battalion is all wrong - she relies mostly on a single muster roll she found in the Internet that reflects the composition of the regiment in early 1776, *not* in the late summer when it was at New York and had undergone major reorganization. She misidentifies 3 out of the 5 companies that formed the "400," as well as most of the officer corps. She also gets the casualties wrong (repeatedly), as well as the important details of the battle.
There are many, many original documents in the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis, the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, etc. that give an accurate picture, but apparently Ms. Reno did not consult them, relying instead on a few incomplete and misleading sources that she found online.
In fact, if you read the book carefully, you will find that it is full of internal contradictions caused by this misunderstanding of the sources. A few weeks of actual archival research would have set the record straight.
Overall, this book is an example of the kind of history that can result when an author relies on "Google" research rather than hard work in the actual archives. It is sad to think that it may end up on the shelves of reputable libraries to mislead students, historians, and genealogists for generations to come. Rather than illuminating the true history of the "Maryland 400," as the author intended to do, she has succeeded only in obscuring it still further.
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