page_title: Maryland Loyalists Battalion
hierarchical_section_title: Maryland Loyalists Battalion
caption_attribution_description: English: William Augustus Bowles (1763-1805), also known as Estajoca, Mezzotint, waist-length portrait of man in 3/4 view, wearing white shirt, metal arm band, necklaces, gorget, shoulder bag and feathered headdress. Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Accession Number: 3765. Note: Born in Maryland of English ancestry, he was an adventurer who served with the Maryland Loyalists Battalion as an ensign during the American Revolution. Some account credit him with the name Billy Bowlegs, and connect him to piracy.
context_page_description: The Maryland Loyalists Battalion, referred to in Captain Caleb Jones's orderly book as the First Battalion of Maryland Loyalists, was a British provincial regiment of colonial American Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War.
context_section_description: The Maryland Loyalists Battalion, referred to in Captain Caleb Jones's orderly book as the First Battalion of Maryland Loyalists, was a British provincial regiment of colonial American Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War.
caption: William Augustus Bowles, who some sources erroneously  believe was also the pirate "Billy Bowlegs", was an ensign in the Maryland Loyalists Battalion.
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