On this day 250 years ago in Westchester County, New York, Col. John Haslet led about 750 men from his Delaware Regiment and Maryland and Virginia regiments on a raid of the British outpost at Maromoneck. The outpost was manned by about 500 Loyalists commanded by the famous Maj. Robert Rogers, hero of the French and Indian War. Although some reports claim that the Loyalists prevailed, or that the engagement was inconclusive, Haslet’s men returned to White Plains with 36 prisoners and “a pair of colours, sixty stand of arms and a variety of plunder,” after killing or wounding 30 of the Loyalists. A British officer on Manhattan recorded in his diary the next day that “[s]ome of Major Rogers’s Corps have been severely handled . . . by a party of The Rebels.”

In comparison, Haslet lost only 3 men killed and 12 wounded, but as usual, I can find only the number, not the names, for the American casualties. On this day 250 years later, we should remember the sacrifice of these unnamed soldiers for American Liberty.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mamaroneck; https://revolutionarywar.us/year-1776/; https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=310641; Mackenzie Diary at 84 accessed at https://archive.org/details/diaryoffrederick21ptunse/page/84/mode/1up