Thomas Ewing (American Revolution)

Colonel

Thomas Ewing
Born1730[1]
Died1790[1]
AllegianceUnited States
Commands3rd Battalion of the Maryland Flying Camp[2]
Battles / warsBattle of Harlem Heights[2]
Battle of Trenton[3]
Battle of Princeton[3]
American Revolutionary War
Spouse(s)Margaret[1]

Colonel Thomas Ewing (1730-1790)[1] was a commander of the 3rd Battalion of the Maryland Flying Camp under the command of Brigadier General Rezin Beall during the American Revolutionary War.[2][4] Under Ewing's command were 12 companies of infantry with 864 men and 2 companies of artillery.[2]

  1. ^ a b c d Howard H. McCall; Ettie Tidwell McCall (July 2010). Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia. Genealogical Publishing Com. pp. 73–. ISBN 978-0-8063-0219-5.
  2. ^ a b c d Bowie, Lucy Leigh (March 1948). "Maryland Troops in the Battle of Harlem Heights" (PDF). Maryland Historical Magazine. XLIII (1): 7. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  3. ^ a b William Scudder Stryker (1898). The Battles of Trenton and Princeton. Houghton, Mifflin. pp. 309–.
  4. ^ Steuart, Rieman (1969). A History of the Maryland Line in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783. Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland. p. 6-8.