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The Methodist Meeting House near this site saw action on September 11-12, 1814, when Brigadier General John Stricker camped 3,200 troops here to await the enemy’s advance. After the Americans withdrew, British soldiers camped on the same grounds, and the church became a field hospital for both armies, where American and British physicians worked side by side to treat soldiers wounded in the battle. Nearby Bread and Cheese Creek helped determine where General Stricker chose to make a stand against the British, because together with Bear Creek and Back River it created one of the narrowest and most defensible parts of Patapsco Neck.
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Dundalk, Maryland · United States
