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	Battle of Great Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Great Bridge was a battle of the American Revolutionary War, fought in the area of Great Bridge, Virginia, which resulted in the end of British Colonial government of the colony.
		The complete defeat of the British in the Virginia Colony at the Battle of Great Bridge on December 9, 1775, seven months before the Declaration of Independence, was at the time called the Second Battle of Bunker Hill.
		William Woodford, in charge of the 2nd Virginia Regiment, was gathering forces at Great Bridge of minute men from Fauquier, Augusta and Culpepper Counties, in the western part of the Colony as well as volunteers from Princess Anne and Norfolk Counties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Great_Bridge (767 words)

	Great Bridge Kiwanis
		The Kiwanis Club of Great Bridge is the younger and smaller of the two Kiwanis clubs in Chesapeake Virginia.
		On the 2nd of December, units of the Virginia militia arrived in Great Bridge and fortified the south end of the Bridge.
		This battle has been called the "Bunker Hill of the South" because it was the first decisive battle of the Revolution fought in the South.
	www.greatbridgekiwanis.org /welcome.htm (634 words)

	The Continental Line, Inc. - The Battle of Great Bridge
		There consisted a swamp which encompassed a considerable distance on either side of the bridge, except for two pieces of land that might "not improperly be called islands, being surrounded entirely by water and marsh, and joined to the main land by causeways." (Scribner and Tarter, Vol.
		The victory at Great Bridge emboldened the Virginia Convention to issue a counter-proclamation to Dunmore's emancipation decree.
		Great Bridge was the first decisive battle fought in the South.
	www.continentalline.org /articles/article.php?date=0003&article=000301 (1953 words)

	Chesapeake, Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On the waterway, at Great Bridge where the locks transition from the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River to the Chesapeake and Albemarle Canal lies the site of the Battle of Great Bridge.
		This American Revolutionary War battle was responsible for removing Lord Dunmore and any other vestige of English Government for the Colony of Virginia during the early days of the American Revolution on December 9, 1775.
		The northeastern part of the Great Dismal Swamp is located in Chesapeake.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chesapeake,_Virginia (974 words)

	BATTLES
		Great Bridge seems to have been forgotten by most historians of the Revolution, being relegated to the category of an insignificant little skirmish.
		After Great Bridge, Colonel Stevens and the Culpeper Minutemen fought at Valley Forge, Brandywine, Camden, Guilford Courthouse, and finally at the showdown with the British commander Cornwallis, at Yorktown.
		The battle was not resumed that day, and that night, Jackson withdrew the way he had come, and the Union army did not pursue him.
	www.fortunecity.com /skyscraper/carlton/1069/battles.html (930 words)

	Great Bridge Lock Park - Activities / Facilities Info - Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
		Great Bridge Canoe Trip: Paddlers, led by park rangers, explore the Great Bridge marsh by canoe each December in commemoration of the December 9, 1775, Battle of Great Bridge, which took place in this historic area where Colonial forces fought the British.
		Battle of Great Bridge Celebration on the first Saturday and Sunday in December.
		The battle -- known as the "Southern Bunker Hill" -- is considered by historians to be a significant and decisive Patriot victory.
	www.baygateways.net /activities.cfm?id=133 (292 words)

	A Brief History of the Revolutionary War
		Soon after the Battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, George Washington was selected to become commander of the new Continental Army.
		On December 9, 1775 the British attacked with 600 British regulars and the Queen’s Own across the "great bridge" but were immediately repulsed in a bloody counter-fire from the redoubt held by local Virginia militia under Colonel William Woodford.
		The battle forced Lord Dunsmore to withdraw from Norfolk on January 1, 1776 and the British began a naval artillery barrage of the town.
	www.warmuseum.org /brief_rev_war.htm (1999 words)

	THE BATTLE OF GREAT BRIDGE IN A FURIOUS AND BLOODY HALF-HOUR ON DEC. 9, 1775, BRITISH REDCOATS WERE BEATEN BY COLONIALS.
		It's the Battle of Great Bridge, fought in a furious and bloody half-hour the morning of Dec. 9, 1775.
		In 1775, Great Bridge was a thriving, prosperous village, a major supply point and a key location on a land route to Norfolk.
		So the battle remains generally unknown, a fact lamented by a poem written by Fanny Wilson Tardy, a member of the Great Bridge DAR chapter.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950702/06300275.htm (1332 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Constantine the Great
		A vision had assured him that he should conquer in the sign of the Christ, and his warriors carried Christ's monogram on their shields, though the majority of them were pagans.
		Of his gratitude to the God of the Christians the victor immediately gave convincing proof; the Christian worship was henceforth tolerated throughout the empire (Edict of Milan, early in 313).
		Leo the Great in his day says that it was the custom of many Christians to stand on the steps of the church of St. Peter and pay homage to the sun by obeisance and prayers (cf.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04295c.htm (5939 words)

	The Battle of Great Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Battle of Great Bridge was fought in the area of Great Bridge, which resulted in the end of British Colonial government of the colony.
		The complete defeat of the British in the Virginia Colony at the Battle of Great Bridge, 7 months before the writing of the Declaration of Independence, was at the time called the Second Battle of Bunker's Hill.
		Col. William Woodford, in charge of the 2nd Virginia Regiment, was gathering forces at Great Bridge of minute men from Fauquier, Augusta and Culpepper Counties, in the western part of the Colony as well as volunteers from Princess Anne and Norfolk Counties.
	www.myrevolutionarywar.com /battles/751209.htm (731 words)

	ipedia.com: Battle of Milvian Bridge Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Battle of Milvian Bridge took place on October 28, 312 between the Roman Emperors Constantine the Great and Maxentius.
		The underlying cause of the battle was the five-year-long dispute between Constantine and Maxentius over control of the western half of the empire.
		Finally, a bridge of boats set up alongside the Milvian Bridge, over which many of the troops were escaping, collapsed, and those men stranded on the north bank of the Tiber were either taken prisoner or killed, with Maxentius numbered among the dead.
	www.ipedia.com /battle_of_milvian_bridge.html (702 words)

	The Burning of Norfolk - Norfolk Highlights - Chapter 22
		And until his forces were defeated at the Battle of Great Bridge on December 9, 1775, he more or less had things under his control.
		Dunmore's defeat at Great Bridge, however, turned the tide and from then on Norfolk's fate hung in the balance.
		Five days after the battle, the Virginia troops under Colonel William Woodford occupied the borough, from which most of the inhabitants, including the leading Tory families, had fled, the latter seeking refuge aboard Dunmore's already crowded ships in the harbor.
	www.norfolkhistorical.org /highlights/22.html (586 words)

	Tom Holder, Family History, Hiram B. Granbury
		The clashes eventually resulted in the battle of Great Bridge where the Loyalist army under Lord Dunmore was soundly defeated.
		Granbury's connection to Raymond is significant because it meant that during the battle of Raymond he was defending the home of his youth and the honor of the Granberry families still living in the area.
		After the battle of Chickamauga, the 7th Texas was reorganized into A. Smith's Texas Brigade and Col. Hiram Granbury found himself connected with the one officer in the Confederate Army who could tap into Granbury's passion for duty, General Patrick Cleburne.
	battleofraymond.org /holder.htm (5793 words)

	The Battle for the Great Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The patriot force was a mixed group of troops from Virginia and nearby North Carolina (included in the Patriot force was a young John Marshal, later Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court).
		The "Great Bridge" itself was a long causeway through a swamp on the road leading south from Norfolk.
		Following the battle, Dunmore abandoned the field and soon thereafter abandoned Norfolk as well and withdrew his forces to his ships in the harbor.
	www.bytenet.net /history/great_bridge.html (328 words)

	The American Revolution
		He was among the first, but certainly not the last, to contrast the noble aims of the American Revolution with the presence of 450,000 enslaved African Americans in the 13 colonies.
		This hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill is Salem Poor of Andover, Massachusetts.
		The Battle of Bunker Hill was a daring and provocative act against established authority; all who participated could well have been hanged for treason.
	www.nps.gov /revwar/about_the_revolution/african_americans.html (1329 words)

	More on the History of John Marshall--John Marshall House
		As minutemen, the Marshall's went to Chesapeake where the newly formed militia defeated the royal forces at the Battle of Great Bridge.
		Following the battle the militia was stationed in Norfolk for a brief time.
		He was wounded in the hand leading an assault against the Chew house during the Battle of Germantown.
	www.apva.org /marshall/justice/more_history.php (900 words)

	VA DAR State Regent Visits Carter's Fort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For this project, she has chosen to build a proper monument to the brave men who fought in the Battle of Great Bridge.
		The Battle of Great Bridge, fought on December 9, 1775, is recognized as the first land battle of the American Revolution in the South.
		The significance of the battle, a resounding colonial victory, was that the British were prevented from occupying the trade route from North Carolina to the Port of Norfolk.
	www.virginiastar.net /archives/ar02_0710/regent.htm (437 words)

	American Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In December 1775, he commanded a battalion of Virginia militia at the Battle of Great Bridge.
		The battle, a victory for the Americans, helped keep Lord Dunmore, the Royal Governor of Virginia, from retaking the state for England.
		As a member of this army, the militia fought in the diasterous battle at Camden where, by all acounts, they did not fight well.
	www.nps.gov /colo/Ythanout/Stevensbio.htm (218 words)

	BW Online \| September 14, 2000 \| An Open-Source Maven Closes In on Oracle
		Great Bridge trumpets benchmark-test results that show PostGres running on par with or better than Oracle's 8I database as well as Microsoft's less powerful and less popular SQL Server.
		Great Bridge will need to make sure that the myriad developers working on the software for free don't feel exploited or fearful that the laissez-faire development process will get corporatized.
		To that end, Great Bridge has hired the core developer in the PostGres community and retained a handful of others as paid consultants.
	www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/sep2000/nf20000914_762.htm (1765 words)

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		The Outer Banks of North Carolina is known as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic” for the great number of shipwrecks that have occurred there over the years.
		Perhaps the most incredible part of this true story is that the teenager was so concerned about her parents’s reaction, that she and her pony started back home after only a few hours rest.
		Despite her heroic efforts, the Perquimans Militia arrived two days after the Battle of Great Bridge, during which Howe's troops had managed to hold the British back by fighting from trenches at the foot of the bridge.
	www.ecsu.edu /ECSU/AcadDept/Business/ThinkBig/BetsyDowdy.HTML (799 words)

	Chesapeake Real Estate, Homes For Sale, water front homes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the early months of the Revolutionary War, in December 1775, British Royal governor Lord Dunmore moved his forces from Norfolk to Great Bridge where his army entrenched itself to await the arrival of American forces.
		Battle of Great Bridge, just a few hundred yards from where the Chesapeake Municipal Center complex stands today.
		Although no battles were fought in the Chesapeake area, Union troops occupied and laid waste to much of the land.
	www.millershomes.com /chesapeake-real-estate (849 words)

	ARTICLE: Battle of Great Bridge ignored, scholar says (The Virginian-Pilot - HamptonRoads.com/PilotOnline.com)
		Yet the bloody clash that the sign commemorates, the half-hour-long Battle of Great Bridge involving roughly 2,000 British and American forces on Dec. 9, 1775, was actually a very big deal, says a College of William and Mary history professor, who argues that the battle deserves equal billing with Lexington and Concord.
		The battle was a decisive victory for the Colonists, who, as at Bunker Hill earlier the same year, waited until the last minute before rising from their fortifications at the southern end of a narrow causeway and mowing down ranks of advancing redcoats.
		The loss at Great Bridge was soon followed by the British evacuation of Norfolk, with Dunmore and his redcoats primarily based on ships.
	home.hamptonroads.com /stories/story.cfm?story=78941&ran=200609 (1368 words)

	Chesapeake, Virginia (VA), Pictures
		Chesapeake encompasses parts of Great Dismal Swamp, much of which is a national wildlife refuge.
		During the American Revolution, at the Battle of Great Bridge, the Virginia militia defeated forces of the British governor on December 9, 1775.
		The Dismal Swamp Canal, begun in 1793 and opened in 1805, is the oldest operating artificial waterway in the United States.
	www.greatestcities.com /North_America/USA/Virginia_VA/Chesapeake_city.html (291 words)

	The Legend of Betsy Dowdy
		John Harvey, of Perquimans, had joined his fathers across the great divide, but his mantle had fallen upon his kinsman and connection by marriage, General William Skinner, of Yoepim Creek, Perquimans County, North Carolina, and he was watching every movement of Dunmore.
		Excitement ran high, and the expected invasion of the Albemarle counties, and the probable collision at Great Bridge, where Dunmore was entrenched, was the universal subject of conversation.
		If they don't reach Great Bridge in time to bear a hand in the fight, they'll hurry on to Norfolk and drive Dunmore out of the old town.
	www.fmoran.com /dowdy.html (1224 words)

	AlphaPatriot: Comment On News from Fallujah
		American troops scored one of their biggest successes in the battle for Fallujah when an estimated 70 foreign fighters were killed in a massive precision artillery strike on a building in a mosque complex.
		I don't recall anyone being surrounded at Gettysburg and there were over 3,000 killed on each side not to mention that casualties were in the tens of thousands.
		Maybe it will be more like the Battle of Great Bridge.
	www.alphapatriot.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=4100 (403 words)

	spencer.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He was then appointed a Lieutenant Colonel of a Regiment of the Virginia Militia June 5, 1780 and he served as such for a period of fourteen months.
		He served in the Battle of Great Bridge, at the burning of Norfolk and he was also at the Battle of Quinn's Island and he also served at the Battle of Brandywine.
		He served at the Battle of Germantown as a captain and in Gates Defeat as a colonel.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ky/county/grant/index/spencer.html (295 words)

	RE-CREATING BIG BATTLE OF GREAT BRIDGE HAS BECOME LONG CAMPAIGN
		But in order to win their own ``battle of Great Bridge,'' Shirley Jiral and Elizabeth Hanbury have to raise big bucks, find a site, get a theater built and and dangle dramatic bait that will hook a horde of paying customers.
		The 1775 battle happened because Great Bridge was a key point on the network of inland waterways that were used to transport goods and supplies.
		That had to be one of the great under-estimations of the 18th century.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950507/05050257.htm (789 words)

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