Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon
Page Twelve
Thursday, July 31, 1975
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[HIGHLIGHTS OF AMERICAN HISTORY]
GENERAL STARK AT THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON
MARKETS
of
When a body of untrain­
On August 14th, 1777,
ed American volunteers con­ General Stark's militia, rain-
quered an army of British forced by the Vermont
regulars at the Battle of farmers, marched out to
Bennington, new enthusi­ meet the enemy at Benning
asm and hope was sparked ton. On the 16th, after
in the American Revolution
having skillfully mapped out
ary cause.
a strategic plan of attack,
"This single victory filled General Stark voiced his
all true American hearts memorable "win the fight
with joy," remarked orator or die upon the enemy"
Frederick J. Jennings, of speech.
Bennington, Vermont, al­
The spirited men rushed
most a hundred years later. bravely into the battle
The events leading to the grounds that day and pound­
key battle began when Gen­ ed the entrenched British
eral John Burgoyne sent a with relentless fury, seizing
Britiah detachment to cap­ the smoking guns and turn­
ture the stores at Benning­ ing them upon the bewilder­
ton and to disperse the ed enemy. The Red Coats
Patriots collecting there. retreated.
Vermont, the new-born
Frederick Coffay Yohn,
state, was indeed gathering
an American artist known
force along with pledges of for his carefully-researched
military support from a
battle scenes, captures a mo­
score of New England states
ment of the battle in one of
in the event of British at­ his oaintings entitled "Gen­
eral Stark at the Battle of
tack. New Hampshire was
Bennington." Thia oil paint­
the first state to answer
ing is part of a collection
Vermont's call by sending
owned by The Continental
a militia under General
Insurance Companies.
John Stark.
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