Potato Battery - Havre de Grace, MD
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bluesnote
N 39° 32.441 W 076° 05.081
18S E 406793 N 4377341
What's left of Battery Concord is just a stone monument with a cannon located on the site of the original battery. During the war of 1812, the battery was used in battle.
Waymark Code: WMXG5E
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 01/08/2018
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The plaque says, "This cannon of the War of 1812
marks the site of the battery on Concord Point
where
John O'Neill
1769-1838
served the guns single handed during the
British attack upon Havre de Grace
May 3, 1813 until disabled and captured.
He was released from the British frigate Maid Stone through the intercession of his young daughter, Matilda, to whom Admiral Cockburn gave his gold-mounted snuff-box in a token of her heroism. As a tribute to the gallant conduct of her father, the citizens of Philadelphia presented to him a handsome sword.
Erected by the citizens of Havre de Grace and the descendants of John O'Neill in the year of the National Star-Spangled Banner Centennial 1914."
Era: Pre-Napoleonic
General Comments: Not listed
Related web site: Not listed
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