. The New England magazine . A Street in Bennington, sistence from the captured magazine of the enemyuntil supplies could be transported to the armysufficent to last for four weeks. (2.) In case heshould move with his whole army against theenemy near Stillwater, General Arnold would notbe able to send a strong force against ColonelBaum. (3.) That he had received intelligencethat Colonel St. Leger was besieging Fort Stan\\ ixand that Arnold intended to send a considerableforce to the relief of that place; therefore, it wasof the greatest importance that a detachment ofthe left wing should make
. The New England magazine . A Street in Bennington, sistence from the captured magazine of the enemyuntil supplies could be transported to the armysufficent to last for four weeks. (2.) In case heshould move with his whole army against theenemy near Stillwater, General Arnold would notbe able to send a strong force against ColonelBaum. (3.) That he had received intelligencethat Colonel St. Leger was besieging Fort Stan\\ ixand that Arnold intended to send a considerableforce to the relief of that place; therefore, it wasof the greatest importance that a detachment ofthe left wing should make a move and thus intimi-date the enemy and prevent him from sendingthis force against St. Leger. These three reasonsoverruled the representations of The Vermont Soldiers Home at Bennington 768 BENNINGTON AND ITS BATTLE. In response to Burgoynes pompous andthreatening proclamation issued fromSkenesborough to thepeople of the neigh-boring Vermont andNew York towns,some met ColonelSkene at Castleton tolearn how they mightearn the graciousclemency of Eng-lands king, but afar greater numberfled to the air was full ofpanic, but in theCatamount T aver nthe hardy makersof a new state neverlost their had alreadygone out to NewHampshire that NewEnglands border wasin danger, and theNew Hampshire as-sembly had calledJohn Stark from hisAchillean retirementand summoned himto command a brig-ade and march atonce to Massachusetts themen of Berkshire and Worcester preparedto respond promptly to a call to rising had begun. John Stark was one of the bravest ofthe brave. He was born at Londonderry,New Hampshire, in 1728, and in 1752,while trapping along Bakers River inRumney, he was captured by
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