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Location: THE GREEN

City: DOVER

State: Delaware

Zip Code: 19901

Type of Memorial: Plaques On Stone

Year Dedicated: 1912

Access: Public

Wars Commemorated: REVOLUTIONARY WAR

Photograph By: ROGER DEAN MEYER


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.


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