The Delaware Line - Dover, Delaware
Posted by: ddtfamily
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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