During the Battle of Brooklyn in August, 1776, two hundred and fifty-six Maryland infantrymen fell heroically near the Cornelius Van Brunt homestead in today's Gowanus/Park Slope fighting an audacious rear-guard action against the British Army.
Not until 119 years later, in August, 1895, was a monument erected in Prospect Park to honor them. But if the actual gravesite of these brave soldiers,
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