The Battle of Bennington - "Our Officers Who Were Really Captured"
Bennington Battle Day, August 16th, is a state holiday in Vermont. It commemorates the victory of American militia forces over a mostly German detachment from British Lieutenant-General John Burgoyne's army sent to Bennington, Vermont, to seize badly needed supplies. The Vermont Division of Historic Preservation maintains the 306 foot tall Bennington Battle Monument , erected in 1891, to commemorate the victory. Despite these strong Vermont connections, the battle was fought in New York . American forces fought under the command of New Hampshire Brigadier-General John Stark, memorialized today in prints, paintings, and sculpture, including in the Crypt of United States Capitol under the Rotunda, as pictured on the website of the Architect of the Capitol . Much of the battlefield is a New York state park, near the Walloomsac River just outside the town of Hoosick . The site is not far from the route the British element of the Convent...