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About 20 defenders in the town failed to prevent roughly 400 British troops from landing on May 3, 1813. A gun battery, probably located north of where the lighthouse now stands, was manned alone for a short time by John O'Neill. He was later caught with two muskets and imprisoned on a British ship for several days. British Rear Admiral George Cockburn recalled observing guns fired and American colors hoisted at a newly erected battery at Havre-de-Grace, after which British forces opened fire on the place and received a sharp but brief return fire from the battery.
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Havre de Grace, Maryland · United States
