The Brooklyn stone house where 256 Maryland soldiers died saving George Washington’s army

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Old Stone House (Brooklyn, New York)

The Battle of Long Island was the largest fight of the Revolution, and it all came down to one farmhouse.

Maryland soldiers faced an impossible task: attack 2,000 British troops with less than 400 men. They did it anyway, charging again and again while their fellow soldiers escaped across Gowanus Creek…

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