below: History of the Battle from the Maryland Historical Magazine.
See the "Historic Structures" page of this website for specific information about the Becky Phipps cannon including its re-dedication in 1999 and how the islanders inadvertently blew it to pieces during a celebration in 1912.
Here is a story handed down the generations to descendants of the battle:
There was one that my father told me, probably received from his GrFa, who in turn was grandson to one of the participants in the "battle". He said that shortly after the assault over the ice began, one of the British seamen put his hat on the end of his musket and raised it above the boat's gunwale to see what the natives might do. At which point one of the militiamen put a ball through the cap and knocked it off the sailor's gun. Faced with such marksmanship, the British surrendered immediately. And, of course, family legend has it that the shooter was one of the Geoghegan boys.
By - Bill Geoghegan 2014
Here is a story handed down the generations to descendants of the battle:
There was one that my father told me, probably received from his GrFa, who in turn was grandson to one of the participants in the "battle". He said that shortly after the assault over the ice began, one of the British seamen put his hat on the end of his musket and raised it above the boat's gunwale to see what the natives might do. At which point one of the militiamen put a ball through the cap and knocked it off the sailor's gun. Faced with such marksmanship, the British surrendered immediately. And, of course, family legend has it that the shooter was one of the Geoghegan boys.
By - Bill Geoghegan 2014
