James Lingan Military person
James McCubbin Lingan was an officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and subsequently a senior officer in the Maryland State Militia. He was taken prisoner at Fort Washington early in the war and spent several years aboard a prison hulk. After independence, Lingan served as a government official in Georgetown. At the outbreak of the War of 1812, Lingan was an outspoken advocate of freedom of the press and was murdered by a mob while defending the offices of an anti-war newspaper in Baltimore.
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service start | 1776 |
service end | 1776 |
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External resources
- http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Topics/history/American_and_Military/1812_Baltimore_Riot/Sep1_1812_pamphlet/home.html
- http://www.common-place.org/vol-03/no-04/baltimore
- http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lingan&GSfn=James&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1812&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=2282&df=all&