I'd never heard of it the engagement, small as it was, before so did some Wiki-ing and found out these items:
** Caulk's house still stands on the battlefield.
** A monument was erected to the battle in 1902.
** Captain Parker's body was preserved in a barrel of whiskey and sent back to England. (Talk about your pickling.)
** The British suffered 14 Marines killed and 27 wounded.
** One of the Kent County American militia men was Ezekial Foreman Chambers who was later a judge and a U.S. senator.
Brock-Perry
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