Battle of the Severn

Battle of the Severn
Part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

An illustration of the battle
DateMarch 25, 1655
Location
Annapolis, Maryland
38°59′56″N 76°28′55″W / 38.998805°N 76.481867°W / 38.998805; -76.481867
Result Commonwealth victory
Belligerents
Commonwealth supporters (primarily Puritan settlers) Lord Baltimore's supporters (Royalist and Catholic settlers)
Commanders and leaders
William Fuller William Stone
Strength
175[1] 130[1]
Casualties and losses
2 killed 17 killed
32 wounded

The Battle of the Severn was a skirmish fought on March 25, 1655, on the Severn River at Horn Point, across Spa Creek from Annapolis, Maryland, in what at that time was referred to as the Puritan settlement of "Providence", and what is now the neighborhood of Eastport. It was an extension of the conflicts that formed the English Civil War,[2] pitting the forces of Puritan settlers against forces aligned with Lord Baltimore, then Lord Proprietor of the colony of Maryland. It has been suggested by Radmila May that this was the "last battle of the English Civil War."[3]

  1. ^ a b Gambrill, J. Montgomery (1904). Leading Events of Maryland History. Boston etc.: Ginn & Company. pp. 44, 45.
  2. ^ Cook, Sue (presenter) (July 6, 2004), The Battle of Great Severn – Colonial America and the English Civil War, Making History (programme 12), BBC Radio 4
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Battle was invoked but never defined (see the help page).