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1st Maryland Regiment
1st Maryland Regiment holding the line at the Battle of Guilford Court House
Active1776–1783
Country1st Maryland Regiment United States of America
Allegiance1st Maryland Regiment Maryland
TypeInfantry
Size728 soldiers (1776) re-organized to 611 soldiers (1781)
Part ofMaryland Line
Engagements
Brooklyn, Harlem Heights
White Plains, Trenton
Princeton, Brandywine
Germantown, Monmouth
Camden, Cowpens, Guilford Court House
Siege of Yorktown
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Colonel William Smallwood
Colonel John Gunby
Recruitment areas

The 1st Maryland Regiment (Smallwood's Regiment) originated with the authorization of a Maryland Battalion of the Maryland State Troops on 14 January 1776. It was organized in the spring at Baltimore, Maryland (three companies) and Annapolis, Maryland (six companies) under the command of Colonel William Smallwood consisting of eight companies and one light infantry company from the northern and western counties of the colony of Maryland.

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