Bennington

In Walloomsac, New York, a rebel force of 2,000 men, led by General John Stark, decisively defeated a detachment of General John Burgoyne's army led by Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum. Baum’s force left Burgoyne’s camp on August 9. The force …

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In Walloomsac, New York, a rebel force of 2,000 men, led by General John Stark, decisively defeated a detachment of General John Burgoyne's army led by Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum. Baum’s force left Burgoyne’s camp on August 9. The force marched off toward Bennington on August 11. Along the way they learned that a sizable force was in place at Bennington. Stark, on receiving word of the approaching force, sent a request for support, and then moved his troops out of Bennington toward Baum’s force, setting up a defensive line. On the afternoon of August 16 Stark ordered his men to be ready to attack. Baum assumed that the Americans were retreating or redeploying. However, Stark had sent sizable flanking parties to either side of his lines.

Walloomsac, New York

The Battle of Bennington was a battle of the American Revolutionary War, part of the Saratoga campaign, that took place on August 16, 1777, in Walloomsac, New York, about 10 miles (16 km) from its namesake, Bennington, Vermont. A rebel force of 2,000 men, primarily New Hampshire and Massachusetts militiamen, led by General John Stark, and reinforced by Vermont militiamen led by Colonel Seth Warner and members of the Green Mountain Boys, decisively defeated a detachment of General John Burgoyne's army led by Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum, and supported by additional men under Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich von Breymann.

Wikipedia: Battle of Bennington

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