**Bennington: The Raid That Broke an Empire's Campaign**
PEOPLE
Ethan Allen
Green Mountain Boys Commander, Vermont Land Speculator, Patriot Leader
General John Stark
New Hampshire Militia General, Continental Army Officer, Battle of Bennington Commander
Elizabeth "Molly" Stark
Militia Commander's Wife, Frontier Homesteader
General John Burgoyne
British General, Northern Army Commander, Playwright
KEY EVENTS
Saratoga Campaign: Bennington Losses Cripple Burgoyne
Sep 1777
Battle of Bennington — Defeat of Baum's Column
Aug 1777
Battle of Bennington — Defeat of Breymann's Relief Column
Aug 1777
Fort Ticonderoga Captured by Green Mountain Boys
May 1775
Burgoyne's Army Enters New York from Canada
Jun 1777
Burgoyne Dispatches Baum's Raiding Column
Aug 1777
STORIES
MODERN VOICE
What the Prisoners Saw
The Hessian prisoners taken at Bennington — more than 600 of them — were marched through Vermont and Massachusetts to detention camps. What the communities along that route saw mattered: not rumored v...
HISTORICAL VOICE
Tonight We Are All Widows or We Are Not
What Stark said before the battle has been polished into something more quotable than anything a militia general was likely to say in a field in August 1777. The version that entered history — that th...