The Battle of Brooklyn: A virtual lecture about the “Maryland 400” 

The Enoch Pratt Free Library, the  Maryland Four Centuries Project 

and the Maryland State Archives Present:

The Battle of Brooklyn: A virtual lecture about the “Maryland 400” 

August 27 at 6:30 pm

Please join us for a virtual lecture to commemorate the anniversary of the 1776 Battle of Brooklyn, given by Owen Lourie, who has been heading the project at the Archives to identify the names of these brave Revolutionary War soldiers from Maryland. This talk chronicles the Maryland 400, the soldiers who saved George Washington's army at the Battle of Brooklyn in August 1776. It describes their actions, including their famous last stand against the British. It also follows the lives of some to the soldiers after the war, including a number from Baltimore. 

This event is co-sponsored by the Archives, the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the not-for-profit group from the Maryland Four Centuries Project. You can find dial-in information, and the link to join in Crowdcast here: 

https://calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/battle_of_brooklyn_lecture#.XysK2yhKjIV 

 

 

Owen Lourie is a historian at the Maryland State Archives, where he joined the staff in 2003. He has conducted and supervised research on a wide array of topics relating to Maryland history, specializing in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Early Federal eras, as well as the operations and members of the state's government. Since 2013, he has been the project director of Finding the Maryland 400, a collaboration with the Maryland Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, studying the soldiers who saved the Continental Army at the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776. For more information about the project, see msamaryland400.wordpress.com

Owen earned a B.A. in American Studies from Kenyon College in 2005, and an M.A. in history, with a concentration in public history, from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2012.