. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... HERKIMER MORTALLY WOUNDED. Arnold was sent at his own request to itsrelief. He caused the strength of his forcelo be greatly exaggerated, and spread areport that Burgoyne had been Indians deserted St. Leger rapidly uponhearing these reports, and that commander were hostile to him, and he found it hard toprocure either cattle or horses. Though hiscamp on the Hudson was but eighteen milesfrom Lake George, this lack of animals madeit almost impossi
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... HERKIMER MORTALLY WOUNDED. Arnold was sent at his own request to itsrelief. He caused the strength of his forcelo be greatly exaggerated, and spread areport that Burgoyne had been Indians deserted St. Leger rapidly uponhearing these reports, and that commander were hostile to him, and he found it hard toprocure either cattle or horses. Though hiscamp on the Hudson was but eighteen milesfrom Lake George, this lack of animals madeit almost impossible to transport his suppliesacross the intervening country, ancj his 424 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. army was beginning to run short of provi-sions. To obtain horses and provisions, Bur-goyne, early in August, sent a force of fivehundred Germans and a detachment ofIndians and Tories, under Lieutenant-ColonelBaum, to seize the stores collected by the, Americans at Bennington, Vermont, and tocollect such horses and cattle as they could^~ the march. He Avas told that the people. GENERAL JOHN STARK. of the neighborhood were largely devotedto the king, and that the stores wereunguarded. The news of the approach of this forcespread rapidly through the country, and theGreen Mountain Boys, as the Vermont militiawere termed, flew to arms. Colonel Stark,who had retired from the Continental army onaccount of having been neglected in therecent promotions, was in the neighborhood,and was offered the command of the gather- ing forces. He accepted it promptly, andissued a warning to the people along theroute of the British to drive off their horsesand cattle, and to conceal their grain andwagons to prevent their capture by theenemy. A messenger was sent with all speedto Manchester to Colonel Seth Warner, urg-ing him to march at once with his regimentto Bennington, where he was needed. Battle of Bennington. Baum had advanced to within six miles ofBennington when he heard of the approachof the mi
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