Tarry at home travels . es tillhe reads them now. So far as fame goes, oneof the two was taken and the other left, and theone who was taken was the one who thought hemight be disgraced by the manner of his dates are these: — General St. Clair abandoned Ticonderoga, 6th of July,1777. Battle of Hubbardton, 7th of July, of Bennington, August 16, of Saratoga, 19th of September, at Saratoga, 17th of October, 1777. In writing about New Hampshire I spoke of thebattle of Bennington as belonging with Burgojniesdefeat at Saratoga. Colonel Creasy spoke of
Tarry at home travels . es tillhe reads them now. So far as fame goes, oneof the two was taken and the other left, and theone who was taken was the one who thought hemight be disgraced by the manner of his dates are these: — General St. Clair abandoned Ticonderoga, 6th of July,1777. Battle of Hubbardton, 7th of July, of Bennington, August 16, of Saratoga, 19th of September, at Saratoga, 17th of October, 1777. In writing about New Hampshire I spoke of thebattle of Bennington as belonging with Burgojniesdefeat at Saratoga. Colonel Creasy spoke of thatas one of the fifteen decisive battles of the was in what was called the Hamp-shire Grants, which so soon declared their ownindependence and made Vermont a state whichjoined the old Thirteen when she chose. VERMONT 127 Senator Hoar used to tell a fine story of hisfirst visit to Bennington. He made some mistakein leaving his hotel to go to see the monumenton the battle-ground. But he fell in with a. Alexander ], Major-Geneeal U. S. an engraving by J. B. Longacre of the painting by T. Sully. httle bo}^ who became his guide. Hoar askedhim some questions about the battle, and theboy was somewhat confused in his acknowledged that he was not perfectly 128 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS informed, saying, What I know is that the Ben-ningtons beat. The actual battle-ground wason the New York side of the state line. There is another feather in the cap of Vermont,which her own people prize perhaps, but outsideher owTi borders it is not referred to so often asis that battle where the Benningtons feather was won the day of the double bat-tle of Plattsburg, in 1814, when General Macombwith his little army drove back Sir George Prevostwith the English army, and when McDonough,only thirty years old, with the American fleet,sank or drove back the English fleet. Thatwas one of the battles of ship-builders, as some-body calls them — Henry Adams,
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