The Delaware Line - Dover, Delaware
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N 39° 09.382 W 075° 31.392
18S E 454794 N 4334259
Historic monument to the Delaware Line
Waymark Code: WMMFVF
Location: Delaware, United States
Date Posted: 09/14/2014
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The "Delaware Line" was an infantry regiment within the Continental Army that was assigned to the state of Delaware by the Continental Congress. Together with the "lines" of the other 12 states, it formed the Continental Line.
The text of the marker reads:
TO COMMEMORATE AND ALSO PRESERVE
TO POSTERITY THE UNDYING FAME OF
THE PATRIOTISM AND VALOR OF
THE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS
OF THE DELAWARE LINE
WHO, IN MAY 1780
WERE REVIEWED ON THIS GREEN
FOR THE LAST TIME
IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO MARCHING
ON THEIR IMMORTAL SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN
IN THE WAR OF
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
AND FROM WHICH CAMPAIGN BUT FEW SURVIVED
TO RETURN TO THEIR NATIVE STATE
THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY THE
DELAWARE STATE SOCIETY
OF THE CINCINNATI
AND THE
PATRIOTIC CITIZENS OF
THE STATE OF DELAWARE
MAY 30 A.D. 1912 |
The Monument is located in front of the old Delaware State House at the east end of "The Green" in historic Dover. The marker itself is now historic as it is was placed by a historic society over 100 years ago.
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