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Vermont leader who commanded the Green Mountain Boys and led the surprise capture of Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775. Captured by the British in September 1775 during an ill-conceived attack on Montreal, he spent most of the war as a prisoner. His defiant personality defined the independent character of the Vermont movement.

New Hampshire militia general who commanded American forces at the Battle of Bennington. Having resigned his Continental commission over a seniority dispute, he accepted command of the New Hampshire militia and won the engagement that weakened Burgoyne before Saratoga. His pre-battle speech became one of the Revolution's most quoted rallying cries.

Wife of General John Stark, she became the subject of her husband's famous pre-battle declaration that victory would follow or "Molly Stark sleeps a widow." Her name entered the war's popular memory as a symbol of the personal stakes militia soldiers brought to battle.

British general who commanded the invasion force moving south from Canada through the Lake Champlain corridor toward Albany in 1777. His decision to send Baum's detachment to raid Bennington resulted in the loss of nearly a thousand men and set the conditions for his surrender at Saratoga in October.

Hessian dragoon officer commanding the British-German detachment sent by Burgoyne to seize the Bennington supply depot. Baum established defensive works on a wooded ridge above the Walloomsac River but was surrounded and mortally wounded when Stark's militia flanked his position on August 16, 1777.

Vermont militia colonel who commanded one of the flanking columns at the Battle of Bennington, striking the left side of Baum's position simultaneously with the main assault on the right. His role in the envelopment was critical to the collapse of the German defensive line.

Hessian officer commanding the relief column sent to support Baum's detachment. Arriving after Baum's defeat, he engaged Warner's Green Mountain Boys and Stark's reassembled militia in a road battle and was driven back with heavy losses, confirming the completeness of the American victory at Bennington.

Vermont militia colonel and Green Mountain Boys leader who arrived with his regiment during the second phase of the Battle of Bennington, driving off Breymann's relief column. Warner had helped capture Fort Ticonderoga with Ethan Allen in 1775 and commanded Vermont forces throughout the northern campaigns.