Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Mayu na 1778 Maitland ya umurci sojojin ruwa a kan jiragen ruwa a Delaware a lokacin yakin basasa na Amurka kuma ya zama Lieutenant-colonel na 1st Battalion, 71st Regiment of Foot, Fraser's Highlanders a watan Oktoba 1778. Ya yi yaƙi a yakin Stono Ferry, inda ya umurci 'yan Birtaniya, kuma ya taimaka wajen kawar da Siege na Savannah
Ka yi haƙuri. Ya mutu daga zazzabin cizon sauro a ranar 22 ga Oktoba 1779 jim kaɗan bayan da aka ɗage kewaye. Fiye da ƙarni, an binne shi a cikin kabari a cikin Savannah's Colonial Park Cemetery, tare da abokin hamayyarsa Nathanael Greene. A shekara ta 1981, Dokta Preston Russell ya sami izini daga birnin don shiga kabarin. Ya ɗauki ƙasusuwan Maitland zuwa ƙasarsa ta Scotland.