Rezin Beall
{{Short description|American Revolutionary War general (1723–1809)}}
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| birth_date = 1723
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| death_date = 1809
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| commands = Flying Camp
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| battles = Battle of Harlem Heights{{cite journal|last1=Bowie|first1=Lucy Leigh|title=Maryland Troops in the Battle of Harlem Heights|journal=Maryland Historical Magazine|date=March 1948|volume=XLIII|issue=1|page=7|url=http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5800/sc5881/000001/000000/000169/pdf/msa_sc_5881_1_169.pdf
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Battle of Trenton{{cite book|author=William Scudder Stryker|title=The Battles of Trenton and Princeton|url=https://archive.org/details/BattlesOfTrentonAndPrinceton|year=1898|publisher=Houghton, Mifflin|pages=[https://archive.org/details/BattlesOfTrentonAndPrinceton/page/n338 309]–}}
Battle of Princeton
American Revolutionary War
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Brigadier General Rezin Beall (1723–1809){{cite book|author=Harrison Dwight Cavanagh|title=Colonial Chesapeake Families: British Origins and Descendants|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lzaSAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA115|date=2 May 2014|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|isbn=978-1-4931-8807-9|pages=115–116}}{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=December 2017}} was appointed commander of Maryland's Flying Camp militia by the United States Congress.{{cite book|author=Patrick O'Donnell|title=Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GwmuCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT68|date=1 March 2016|publisher=Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated|isbn=978-0-8021-9071-0|page=68}}Steuart, Rieman (1969). A History of the Maryland Line in the Revolutionary War, 1775–1783. Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland. p. 54.
Career
On 17 July 1776, Captain Beall was wounded in action on St. George Island, Maryland in a battle resisting efforts of British forces under the command of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore to land on the mainland in Maryland.{{cite journal|title=British Landing Prevented|journal=Maryland Historical Marker|issue=RM-673|url=http://mht.maryland.gov/historicalmarkers/DetailsDirect.aspx?Marker_ID=RM-673|access-date=3 August 2016|publisher=Maryland Historical Trust, Maryland State Highway Administration}}
He is buried at St. John's Episcopal Church in Beltsville, Maryland.
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Category:Continental Army officers from Maryland