William Woodford
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William Woodford was born in Caroline County, Virginia in 1734. He served with Col. George Washington in the French and Indian War at Fort Necessity.
After the end of the French and Indian War, Woodford commanded British troops against the Cherokee Indians.
At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, Col. Woodford took command of the 2nd Virginia Regiment. He drove the royal governor, Lord Dunmore from the Norfolk peninsula after the Battle of Great Bridge in January, 1776, the first battle of the Revolution on Virginia soil.
Woodford was severely wounded in 1777 at the Battle of Brandywine. He commanded a Virginia regiment at Valley Forge. He recovered and returned to the field only to be captured at the Siege of Charleston. He was taken on board a British war ship and sent to New York where he died in captivity in 1780. He was buried there in Trinity Church, New York.
