READ BEFORE THE Maryland Historical Society, ON THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1851. By OSMOND TIFFANY. BALTIMORE: PRINTED BY JOHN MURPHY & CO. No. 178 MARKET STREET. 1851. Mr. President : The events of the American Revolution are so nearly connected with our own times, that the actors in that great struggle seem yet to be to us as living men. We open the portal of the past century, and are with those who once like ourselves, breathed and thought, and who now, lie not silent or forgotten in