This is the first of two episodes that recounts Maryland’s “Plundering Time,” when the English Civil War spilled into the Chesapeake. Protestants would rebel against Catholics, and Richard Ingle, a Protestant merchant-trader who had been the principal commercial link between the early Maryland colony and England, would loot the colony and almost put an end to the Calverts’ rule there. This episode is the prelude to that ugly and also comical moment. It was, ultimately, a farce of impulsivity and ego that almost redrew the map of the future United States.

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Selected references for this episode

That Time Maryland and Virginia Went to War

Timothy B. Riordan, The Plundering Time: Maryland and the English Civil War, 1645–1646

Manfred Jonas, “The Claiborne-Calvert Controversy: An Episode in the Colonization of North America,” Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien, 1966.

First English Civil War (Wikipedia)

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