On this day in 1775, American militia Colonel William Woodford reports his victory at the Battle of Great Bridge in Virginia. This was a second Bunkers Hill affair, in miniature, Woodford wrote, with this difference, that we kept our post, and had only one man wounded in the hand.
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Great Bridge would prove to be the first American land victory since the shot heard round the world at the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
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