. The New England magazine . whole corps, with the loyalists who joined them,were disabled or taken prisoners. The prisoners were sent to Benningtonunder guard, and the victorious Ameri-cans who remained upon the field dis-persed to search for plunder. This almostproved their destruction. Suddenly wordcame of the approach of a new was Colonel Breimanns commandof six hundred and fifty men, with twopieces of cannon. Breimann was but twomiles away, and the situation was then Warners regiment, one hun-dred and forty men, came up from Ben-nington fresh and well armed, and u
. The New England magazine . whole corps, with the loyalists who joined them,were disabled or taken prisoners. The prisoners were sent to Benningtonunder guard, and the victorious Ameri-cans who remained upon the field dis-persed to search for plunder. This almostproved their destruction. Suddenly wordcame of the approach of a new was Colonel Breimanns commandof six hundred and fifty men, with twopieces of cannon. Breimann was but twomiles away, and the situation was then Warners regiment, one hun-dred and forty men, came up from Ben-nington fresh and well armed, and uponthis body the scattered patriots Allens journal says that the Berk-shire men, being collected and directedby Colonel Rossiter and reinforced by]\Iajor Stratton, renewed the fight withredoubled fury. The younger officers,AAarner and Rossiter, were allowed toreap the laurels of the second fight, Starkand Simonds taking little part in it. Breimann advanced slowly, clearingthe road with his artillerv, which was. Colonel Baums Sword. BENNINGTON AND ITS BATTLE. ^^Jt >-?^< ..^i^^^ —^ it, -^
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