The Battle Delaware Forgot: Why Cooch’s Bridge Still Matters Nearly 250 Years Later

The Battle Delaware Forgot: Why Cooch’s Bridge Still Matters Nearly 250 Years Later

The Cooch’s Bridge house pictured today on the left with an AI-generated image of the battlefield (that is only an general idea of the battle and not historically accurate.). On Sept. 3, 1777, British and Hessian troops clashed with Continental soldiers and militia near present-day Newark in the Battle of Cooch’s Bridge. By John Riddle, Contributing Journalist, Delaware LIVE Most Delawareans know about Valley Forge, Lexington and Yorktown. Far f…