West River Skirmish of 1781: Difference between revisions

On March 31, 1781, Anne Arundel County's only battle in the American Revolution was fought at Chalk Point, on the West River <ref name = "historyOfAACounty">A History of Anne Arundel County in Maryland. United States, Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2016. https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_Anne_Arundel_County_in_Mary/5wZJvgAACAAJ?hl=en</ref> <ref name = "tulipHill">Kelly, J. Reaney. “’Tulip Hill,’ Its History and Its People.” Maryland Historical Magazine, December 1965, pp. 349-403. https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5800/sc5881/000001/000000/000240/pdf/msa_sc_5881_1_240.pdf</ref> , when a party from the British ships <i>Monk</i> and <i>Hope</i> <ref name = "historyOfAACounty">A History of Anne Arundel County in Maryland. United States, Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2016. https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_Anne_Arundel_County_in_Mary/5wZJvgAACAAJ?hl=en</ref> <ref name = "tulipHill">Kelly, J. Reaney. “’Tulip Hill,’ Its History and Its People.” Maryland Historical Magazine, December 1965, pp. 349-403. https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5800/sc5881/000001/000000/000240/pdf/msa_sc_5881_1_240.pdf</ref> <ref name = "marylandGazette>The Maryland Gazette (Annapolis, Maryland). Thursday, April 5, 1781, Pages 1-2, Accessed 20 July 2023.</ref> sailed up the West River to destroy the property of shipbuilder Stephen Steward <ref name = "historyOfAACounty">A History of Anne Arundel County in Maryland. United States, Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2016. https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_Anne_Arundel_County_in_Mary/5wZJvgAACAAJ?hl=en</ref> <ref name = "marylandGazette>The Maryland Gazette (Annapolis, Maryland). Thursday, April 5, 1781, Pages 1-2, Accessed 20 July 2023.</ref> (Unknown-1794)<ref name = "lymanHall5>Hall, Lyman. "The Stewards of West River." BookBaby, 24 May 2021, p. 90.</ref>, as well as the shipyard he owned and operated <ref name = "chesapeakeBayInTheAmericanRevolution">Eller, Ernest M.. Chesapeake Bay in the American Revolution. United States, Tidewater Publishers, 1981.</ref>.