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2 unusual facts about Seth Warner


Seth Warner

In late June, commander Major General Arthur St. Clair  ordered Warner to raise the militia of the New Hampshire Grants to counter Indian raids along Otter Creek.

The two, accompanied by New Hampshire and Vermont militia and Warner’s  Regiment,  operated to the north of Saratoga (today’s Schuylerville), N.Y. They crossed the Hudson River and by the morning of October 13 had occupied a narrow pass between a marsh by the river and a hill that is now called Stark’s Knob.


Battle of Bennington

A rebel force of 2,000 men, primarily composed of New Hampshire and Massachusetts militiamen, led by General John Stark, and reinforced by men 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.

Bennington, Vermont

German reinforcements under the command of Lt. Col. Heinrich von Breymann looked set to reverse the outcome, but were prevented by the arrival of Seth Warner’s Green Mountain Boys, the Vermont militia founded by Ethan Allen.


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