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Maryland
Maryland's location between the Northern and Southern colonies made it a crucial logistical hub, and its state constitution of 1776 became a model for republican government studied throughout the founding generation.
Annapolis was the colonial capital and home to one of the wealthiest planter classes in British America — men who had much to lose and chose revolution anyway. Baltimore grew rapidly during the war as a supply and manufacturing center, its iron industry feeding the Continental Army's insatiable appetite for cannon and shot. Maryland's "Line" — its Continental regiments — was considered among the finest in the army, and its soldiers were present at some of the war's most desperate moments.
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