American Revolutionary War: Members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Maryland_Regiment" id="mwTQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1st Maryland Regiment">1st Maryland Regiment</a> repeatedly charged a numerically superior British force during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Long_Island" id="mwTg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Long Island">Battle of Long Island</a>, allowing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington" id="mwTw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="George Washington">General Washington</a> and the rest of the American troops to escape.<sup about="#mwt33" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"}}' id="cite_ref-4" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_27#cite_note-4" id="mwUA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwUQ">[4]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"><cite about="#mwt30" class="citation web cs1" id="mwB3k"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120305134522/http://www.mdva.state.md.us/MMMC/md400.html" id="mwB3o" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"A Precious Hour in American History The Maryland 400 at Long Island"</a>. <i id="mwB3s">www.mdva.state.md.us</i>. Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs. Archived from <a class="external text" href="http://www.mdva.state.md.us/MMMC/md400.html" id="mwB3w" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">the original</a> on March 5, 2012<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB30">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB34">March 15,</span> 2022</span>. <q id="mwB38">...and the heroic stand and counter attack by the members of the Maryland 400 is still recognized as the State's major contribution to the struggle for independence. ... only ten (including Major Gist) of the 250 heroic Marylanders in his gallant counter-attack force had returned.</q></cite><span about="#mwt30" class="Z3988" id="mwB4A" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=www.mdva.state.md.us&amp;rft.atitle=A+Precious+Hour+in+American+History+The+Maryland+400+at+Long+Island&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mdva.state.md.us%2FMMMC%2Fmd400.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+27"></span></span>