John Stricker | |
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 1816 portrait by Rembrandt Peale | |
| Born | February 15, 1759 Frederick, Maryland, British America |
| Died | June 23, 1825 (aged 66) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Place of burial | Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, Baltimore |
| Allegiance |  United States of America Maryland |
| Service/ |  Continental Army United States Army Maryland State Militia |
| Years of service | 1775–1783, 1812–1815 |
| Rank | Brigadier General |
| Commands | Third Brigade ("City Brigade" or "Baltimore Brigade"), Third Division, Maryland State Militia |
| Battles/wars | |
Brigadier General John Stricker (1758–1825) was a Maryland state militia officer who fought in both the American Revolutionary War in the First Maryland Regiment of the famous "Maryland Line" of the Continental Army and in the War of 1812. He commanded the Third Brigade (also known as the "City Brigade" or the "Baltimore Brigade") of the Maryland state militia in the Battle of North Point on Monday, September 12, 1814, (later known as "Defenders' Day, a state, county and city holiday) which formed a part of the larger Battle of Baltimore, along with the subsequent British naval bombardment of Fort McHenry on September 13-14th, and was a turning point in the later months of the War of 1812 and to the peace negotiators across the Atlantic Ocean for the Treaty of Ghent, in the city of Ghent then in the Austrian Netherlands, (now of future Belgium), which finally arrived at a peace treaty on Christmas Eve of December 1814, of which news finally reached America in February 1815.