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On September 3, 1777, an American Light Infantry Corps composed of Continental soldiers from New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, with militia from Pennsylvania and Delaware, was stationed west of Christina Creek between Aikentown (Glasgow) and nearby Cooch's Bridge as an advance force ordered to give the British "as much trouble as you possibly can." Led by Brigadier General William Maxwell, these American marksmen met Hessian and British troops moving forward on present-day Old Cooch's Bridge Road and fought a short but hard-fought engagement. Outnumbered and facing artillery, the Americans withdrew towards Christiana after exhausting their ammunition, and Maxwell's Corps later fought with distinction at the Battle of Brandywine.
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