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This image is from a print, Plate Number 110, by H. Charles McBarron, Jr. It was prepared in 1955 and is owned by The Company of Military Collectors and Historians which granted permission to publish.

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Alexandrians vs. British Raiders – June 1814

At 5:30 on the evening of Tuesday, June 21, 1814, a number of Alexandria cavalrymen were sitting on their horses on a hill overlooking the village of Benedict, Md. on the Patuxent River, about 40 miles southeast of Washington. Below them, they could see several British barges and ships anchored in the river near the village.

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