Battle of the Severn

Battle of the Severn
	Part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
	; An illustration of the battle
Date	March 25, 1655
Location	Annapolis, Maryland38.998805°N 76.481867°W
Result	Commonwealth victory
Belligerents
Commonwealth supporters (primarily Puritan settlers)	Lord Baltimore's supporters (Royalist and Catholic settlers)
Commanders and leaders
William Fuller	William Stone
Strength
175	130
Casualties and losses
2 killed	17 killed ; 32 wounded

The Battle of the Severn was a skirmish fought on March 25, 1655, on the Severn River at Horn Point, across Spa Creek from Annapolis, Maryland, in what at that time was referred to as the Puritan settlement of "Providence", and what is now the neighborhood of Eastport. It was an extension of the conflicts that formed the English Civil War, pitting the forces of Puritan settlers against forces aligned with Lord Baltimore, then Lord Proprietor of the colony of Maryland. It has been suggested by Radmila May that this was the "last battle of the English Civil War."

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