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Hello. Hello, thank you for joining the American Revolution. Today, episode 155, the Battle of Bennington.

Last week we left off with General John Stark's New Hampshire Militia Army

marching to occupy Bennington in what is today Vermont, where the Americans maintained a supply depot.

At the same time, German Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum led a force of over 1,000 loyalists and German soldiers detached from Burgoyne's

Army also to capture Bennington. Alert listeners may have noticed a trend that when two opposing armies try to occupy the same town, a battle usually occurs.

And that will be the case today as the two armies clash in what became known as the Battle of Bennington.

As I mentioned last week, Colonel Baum's Column moved slowly through the wilderness. They left Fort Miller on the Hudson River on

August 11th, 1777. Two days later, an advance force of about 50 Indians had reached Cambridge, New York, a small village of a few

houses just over 15 miles away.

Baum's main column was still in transit.

In Bennington, less than 20 miles from Cambridge,

General Stark received word of enemy warriors in Cambridge

and that they were the vanguard of an enemy column. of enemy

warriors in Cambridge and that they were the vanguard of an enemy column.

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