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Description: A sketch by Lord Rawdon of the 1775 Battle of Great Bridge, Virginia. Title: A view of the Great Bridge near Norfolk in Virginia where the action happened between a detachment of the 14th Regt: & a body of the rebels. Key: A. A stockade fort thrown up by the regulars before the action. B. Entrenchments of the rebels. C. A narrow causeway by which the regulars were forced to advance to the attack. D. The church occupied by the rebels.
Title: BattleOfGreatBridge
Credit: Screen capture from John Selby's Revolution in Virginia: https://books.google.com/books?id=WfCBYZs_jIMC&lpg=PA64&dq=dunmore%20november%201775&lr&pg=PA71#v=onepage&q&f=false Original is in the William Clements library, bibliographic record: http://mirlyn-classic.lib.umich.edu/F/?func=direct&doc_number=004673719&local_base=MIU01_PUB
Author: Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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