Joshua Barney

The British frustrated by their inability to flush Barney out of his safe retreat instituted a "campaign of terror" laying waste to "town and farm alike" and plundering and burning Calverton Huntingtown Prince Frederick Benedict and Lower Marlboro. (Prior to the battle Madison had narrowly avoided capture. Leaving his barges with a skeleton crew under the command of Lieutenant Solomon Kireo Frazier to handle any destruction of the craft Barney took the majority of his men to join the American Army commanded by General William Henry Winder where they participated in the Battle of Bladensburg.

Joshua Barney (6 July 1759 – 1 December 1818) was born in Baltimore Maryland and served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War.