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Battle of Great Bridge
Part of the American Revolutionary War
Sketch by Lord Rawdon of the battlefield
Date December 9, 1775 Location Great Bridge, now Chesapeake, Virginia36°43′11″N 76°14′19″W / 36.71972°N 76.23861°W / 36.71972; -76.23861 Result Colonial victory
Belligerents
Virginia North Carolina	Great Britain
Commanders and leaders
William Woodford	Samuel Leslie Charles Fordyce †
Strength
861 infantry and militia	409 infantry, militia, sailors, and grenadiers 2 artillery pieces
Casualties and losses
1 wounded, slight injury to the thumb.
Great Bridge Battle Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
Location	Both sides of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal between Oak Grove and Great Bridge, Chesapeake, Virginia
Area	130 acres (53 ha)
Built	1775 (1775)
NRHP reference No.	73002205
VLR No.	131-0023
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	March 28, 1973
Designated VLR	January 5, 1971
62–102 killed or wounded

A highway marker was placed by the state of Virginia in 1934 near the battle site. In response to construction threats to the battlefield, local citizens organized in 1999 to preserve the area.

Notes

1. ^ Wilson, p. 17
2. Cite error: The named reference W13 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
3. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
4. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
5. Cite error: The named reference R72 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
6. HMDB battle marker
7. "Spring Newsletter" (PDF). Great Bridge Battlefield and Waterways History Foundation. Retrieved 2011-05-18.

References

• Hibbert, Christopher (2002). Redcoats and Rebels. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-32293-4. OCLC 49606153.
• Kranish, Michael (2010). Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War. New York: Oxford University Press USA. ISBN 978-0-19-537462-9. OCLC 320524730.
• Russell, David Lee (2000). The American Revolution in the Southern colonies. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-0783-5. OCLC 248087936.
• Wilson, David K (2005). The Southern Strategy: Britain's conquest of South Carolina and Georgia, 1775-1780. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 1-57003-573-3. OCLC 232001108.
• "HMDB battle marker". hmdb.org. Retrieved 2010-06-10.

External links

• "The Battle of Great Bridge December 9, 1775", The Continental Line, Kyle Willyard
• Future Visitor's Center

v t e Virginia in the American Revolution
Early	Parson's Cause (1763) Virginia Resolves (1765) Virginia Association (1769)
1774	Fairfax Resolves First Virginia Convention
1775	Fincastle Resolutions Augusta Resolves "Give me liberty, or give me death!" Gunpowder Incident Formation of Culpeper Minutemen Dunmore's Proclamation Formation of Ethiopian Regiment Battle of Kemp's Landing Battle of Great Bridge Second Virginia Convention Third Virginia Convention Fourth Virginia Convention
1776	Burning of Norfolk Formation of Lee's Legion Fifth Virginia Convention Augusta Declaration Lee Resolution Virginia Declaration of Rights
1779	Chesapeake raid
1781	Raid on Richmond Skirmish at Waters Creek Battle of Cape Henry Battle of Blandford Action at Osborne's Raid on Point of Fork Battle of Spencer's Ordinary Battle of Green Spring Francisco's Fight Battle of the Chesapeake Siege of Yorktown

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