BATTLE OF COOCH'S BRIDGE REVOLUTIONRY WAR MEMORIAL
AMERICAN LIGHT INFANTRY AND CAVALRY UNDER GENERAL WILLIAM MAXWELL ENCOUNTERED ADVANCE GUARD OF BRITISH AND HESSIAN TROOPS UNDER GENERALS HOWE, CORWALLIS AND KNYPHAUSEN IN THIS VICINITY SEPTEMBER 3, 1777. AMERICAN TROOPS WERE EXPERT MARKSMAN DRAFTED BY GENERAL WASHINGTON FROM THE SEVERAL BRIGADES OF HIS ARMY THEN ENCAMPED NEAR WILMINGTON. ONLY BATTLE OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION ON DELAWARE SOIL AND CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST IN WHICH THE STARS AND STRIPES WERE CARRIED.
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- Public
- REVOLUTIONARY WAR
- Plaques On Stone
- OLD BALTIMORE PIKE AND OLD COOCHES BRIDGE ROAD
- 19702
- WILLIAM PFINGSTEN
- COURTESY OF HMdb.org
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