This year is very special.” The annual Battle of Great Bridge reenactment in December has been the traditional culminating event of the year for members of the 7th Virginia and the 14th Regiment ...

Virginia’s first battle of the American Revolution came on Dec. 9, 1775, with the Battle of Great Bridge. But that’s another story for another day.

April 19 marks 250 years since the first gunfire of the American Revolution rang out at 5:30 a.m. northwest of Boston. It was, to use a phrase coined by Ralph ...

They were sent into the Battle of Great Bridge, in which an army that was overseen by Patrick Henry clashed with the army overseen by Lord Dunmore. In the end, the patriots overwhelmed the British ...

Starmount finished the game with three more scores, making the final score 11-0. Starmount played great defense along with their offense, which was a crucial key to their win.

In the 1950 recording, preserved by GBH Archives, a Waltham doctor recalled his great-grandmother’s childhood account of the chaos on the first day of the Revolutionary War.

Hence in the year one thousand three hundred less three time one the Scots vanquished the English, whom they put into mourning for death, as the bridge bears witness, where the great battle is ...