FaithfulChapter 16 Liberty or Death
In August another Maryland convention met, its stated goal to write a constitution for the newly independent state. One of its first acts was to divide fast-growing Frederick County into three parts. The hilly western section became Washington County, and the legislators decided to call the troublesome southern section Montgomery after the dead hero of the abortive attack on Quebec during the rebellion's first winter. At the end of August British General Howe with some 30,000 men, including...