1792(1792-00-00) (aged 48–49) South Carolina, U.S.
Allegiance
United States
Branch
Continental Army
Rank
Brigadier general
Commands held
2nd Maryland Brigade
Battles/wars
American Revolutionary War
Battle of Long Island
Battle of Camden
Siege of Yorktown
Battle of the Combahee River
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Mordecai Gist (1743–1792) was a member of a prominent Maryland family who became a brigadier general in command of the Maryland Line in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
MordecaiGist (1743–1792) was a member of a prominent Maryland family who became a brigadier general in command of the Maryland Line in the Continental...
more than likely from his father Richard Gist, who helped plot the city of Baltimore. Gist's nephew MordecaiGist served as a general commanded by Washington...
uncle Nathaniel Gist (1707–1780). He was a first cousin of MordecaiGist. Born on 15 October 1733 in Baltimore, Province of Maryland, Gist's parents were...
explorer Nathaniel Gist (1733–1812), son of Christopher Gist, Continental Army soldier MordecaiGist (1743–1792), nephew of Christopher Gist, served as a general...
: 161–162 Gates formed up before first light. On his right flank he placed MordecaiGist's 2nd Maryland Brigade (three regiments) and the Delaware Regiment, with...
light brigade of infantry and cavalry under the command of General MordecaiGist of Maryland. On August 21, General Leslie sent out two foraging expeditions...
1776, members of the 1st Maryland Regiment under the command of Major MordecaiGist, repeatedly charged a numerically superior British force, allowing General...
Maryland Brigade. At Monmouth, the regiment was commanded by Colonel MordecaiGist while its second-in-command was Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Ramsey...
Smallwood's 1st Maryland Infantry under the immediate command of Major MordecaiGist; both Haslet and Smallwood were on courts-martial duty in Manhattan...
except a contingent of Maryland troops under the command of Major MordecaiGist, to cross the creek. This group of Maryland troops became known to history...
give up the assault and try to get to safety themselves. Only Major MordecaiGist and nine others managed to reach the American lines. Of the others,...
made an attempt at foraging, which the Americans, headed by General MordecaiGist and Colonel John Laurens, opposed.[citation needed] Laurens, the son...
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of action." On August 26, Laurens reported to General MordecaiGist near the Combahee River. Gist had learned that 300 British troops under Major William...
newly formed Light Infantry Corps commanded by Continental Army general MordecaiGist. The Queen's Rangers, a Loyalist military unit under the command of...
9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215 - During the 1776 Battle of Brooklyn, Col MordecaiGist & Maryland Continentals under General Stirling waged a battle at the...
troops into two columns with the 2nd Maryland regiment commanded by MordecaiGist as the right flank, and the unproven North Carolina regiment as the...
ISI Books, 2010. ISBN 978-1-933859-89-7. Blakeslee, Katherine Walton. MordecaiGist and His American Progenitors. Baltimore, Maryland: Daughters of the...
1776. British soldiers outflanked the American soldiers under Major MordecaiGist's command in a surprise attack. The Marylanders retreated, fighting their...
Smith, William Lynch Lamar, Josias Carvel Hall, John Eager Howard, MordecaiGist, James Craik, John Gunby, James Peale, Moses Rawlings, Thomas Lancaster...