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Detail of a 1777 military map. Cooch's Bridge is just to the right of Iron Hill; Philadelphia is off to the northeast.
TheBattle of Cooch's Bridge, also known as theBattle of Iron Hill, was fought on September 3, 1777, between theContinental Army andAmerican militia and primarilyGerman soldiers serving alongside theBritish Army during theAmerican Revolutionary War. It was the only significant military action during the war on the soil ofDelaware (though there were also naval engagements off the state's coast), and it took place about a week before the majorBattle of Brandywine. Some traditions claim this as the first battle which saw the U.S. flag.
After landing inMaryland on August 25 as part ofa campaign to capturePhiladelphia, the seat of theContinental Congress, British and German forces under the overall command of GeneralWilliam Howe began to move north. Their advance was monitored by alight infantry corps ofContinental Army andmilitia forces that had based itself atCooch's Bridge, nearNewark, Delaware. On September 3, German troops leading the British advance were met by musket fire from the U.S. light infantry in the woods on either side of the road leading toward Cooch's Bridge. Calling up reinforcements, they flushed the Americans out and drove them across the bridge. (Full article...)
... thata Delaware TV station that had once hoped to present the "best of television" was forced to switch tohome shopping after less than five months on the air?
What is now DE 4 was originally a county road that was paved in the 1930s. DE 4 was designated in the 1960s to run from theMaryland border along Chestnut Hill Road near Newark east to DE 48 in Wilmington. Between 1971 and 1981, the route extended northeast past DE 48 along Washington Street and Washington Street Extension toUS 13 Business (US 13 Bus.) inBellefonte. In the 1980s, the western terminus of DE 4 was realigned from Chestnut Hill Road to the newly-built Christiana Parkway, terminating atDE 2 (now DE 279) and DE 896. (Full article...)
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