 Again swelled up to seven regiments, they were again thinned by their losses to a single regiment and before the campaign had well passed they were once more promptly recruited to four full battalions of more than two thousand men.The Marylanders are best described as the shock troops of the Continental Army, usually given the toughest assignments by Gen. George Washington.At least two of their colonels, Williams and Howard, were considered as the best officers of their grade in the army.