The+Revolutionary+War


 * __The Revolutionary War __**

At the same time that the Green Mountain Boys were rebelling against the king’s decision, the people of the thirteen colonies were **rebelling** against the English government, represented by the King himself.

After 1770, the English settlers in America (colonists) were becoming angry with England, their mother country. The thirteen American colonies were sick and tired of being ruled by the King of England who was so far away. They felt the laws and **taxes** placed on them were unfair , so they began a war for freedom, called the **Revolutionary** **War**. The American colonists wanted to form their own country that was separate from England. They wanted to choose their own leaders and make their own laws. England disagreed with the colonists' wishes and **vowed** to keep America a part of England.

Many of the early battles and activities of the Revolution took place in the New England area. Boston, Massachusetts and Philadelphia , Pennsylvania were the " hot spots", but some important events in the Revolution did take place in or around the area of the New Hampshire Grants (remember -Vermont was not a colony or state yet).

In 1775, **Ethan Allen** and the **Green Mountain Boys** met again in Bennington to make plans to capture the British fort at Ticonderoga. **Fort Ticonderoga** had been first built by the French, and formally called Fort Carillon . The British later named it Fort Ticonderoga after they captured it during the French and Indian War. Allen had heard about earlier problems between the colonists and the English not far from the Grants in the towns of Lexington and Concord. He was so excited that he decided to act on his own for the American's cause for **liberty** (freedom). This seemed to be an impossible task as Fort Ticonderoga was the strongest fort at this time in America. This didn't scare the Green Mountain Boys! Ethan Allen knew the area well and that the British had guns, ammunition <span style="color: #474747; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">, <span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">and <span style="color: #383838; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">soldiers <span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">at the fort. He wanted to capture it before the British could use these weapons against the Grant’s people.

<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">In the middle of the night on May 9, 1775, eighty-three <span style="color: #383838; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Green <span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Mountain Boys crossed Lake Champlain to Fort Ticonderoga. They found the British troops fast asleep and were able to capture the fort without firing a <span style="color: #383838; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">single shot! <span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Ethan Allen wrote <span style="color: #383838; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">later <span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">that the British commander of the fort, Captain William Delaplace, wa <span style="color: #474747; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">s <span style="color: #383838; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">standing <span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">at the head of the <span style="color: #383838; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">stairs <span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">with his pants in his hand as Ethan shouted to him to surrender the fort.

<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">"In whose name?" asked the astonished commander <span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">.

<span style="color: #383838; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">"In <span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">the name of the great Jehovah and the **Continental** **<span style="color: #383838; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Congress **<span style="color: #383838; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">! <span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">" <span style="color: #383838; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">cried <span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Ethan in words that still ring down through the years <span style="color: #474747; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">. ( <span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">The Continental Congress was the group of men who were <span style="color: #383838; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">selected <span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">by the different colonies to lead the colonists in their decision making during the Revolution.)

<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">The Green Mountain Boys dislodged the cannons and dragged them all the way to Boston. In 1776, George Washington used those cannons to help drive the British out of Boston.

<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Later that year <span style="color: #474747; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">, <span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">another group of Green Mountain Boys <span style="color: #474747; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">, <span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">led by <span style="color: #383838; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Seth <span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Warner <span style="color: #474747; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">, <span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">captured a British fort at Crown Point (right near Fort Ticonderoga). For the time being <span style="color: #474747; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">, <span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Lake <span style="color: #383838; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Champlain <span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">would be safer for the Americans. All the next day most of the Green Mountain Boys celebrated. They had taken more than sixty prisoners and an enormous amount of cannon <span style="color: #474747; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">s <span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">and ammunition.

<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">On July 4, 1776 the **Declaration of Independence** <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">was signed by <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">the Continental <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Congress <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">in Philadelphia. This document <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">officially <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">broke <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">our ties with <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">England and pledged the <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">colonists <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">to fight for <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">independence <span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">. <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">At <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">this time, many <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">of <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">the men in the Grants had grabbed their **muskets** and gone to Fort Ticonderoga <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">and <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Fort Independence to help protect their land from a <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">British <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">in <span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">v <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">asion <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">force that <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">was sailing <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">up Lake <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Champlain. <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Fort Independence was <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">a small <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">fort built <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">by <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">the colonists <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">on <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">a rocky point <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">that sticks out <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">into Lake <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Champlain opposite <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Fort <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Ticonderoga.

<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">In the summer of 1776, <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Benedict <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Arnold was promoted to <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Brigadier <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">General <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">and was <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">put in <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">charge <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">of building <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">ships <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">of war for the Americans. The <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">colonists <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">used the timber found <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">in <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">the wilderness along the <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">shores <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">of Lake <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Champlain <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">to build a fleet <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">of ships <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">to attack the British on the lake. Benedict Arnold <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">led <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">the <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">colonists <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">into the <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Battle of Valcour <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Island (near <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">South <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Hero). The British had <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">seventy vessels <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">with <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">ninety-three <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">guns <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">and seven <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">hundred <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">seamen, <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">while Arnold commanded a fleet <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">of only three schooners <span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">, <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">two sloops <span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">, <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">three <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">galleys <span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">, <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">and <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">eight gondolas. <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">The newly built American <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">ships were <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">badly damaged, but the American colonists that appeared to be t rapped in a bay were able to sneak past the British during the foggy night. The British did catch up to them the following day, <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">General <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Arnold's <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">efforts <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">during this battle <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">delayed <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">the British invasion along Lake <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Champlain so <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">much that their <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">general decided <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">to retreat back to <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Canada <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">instead <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">of <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">advancing <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">up <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">the lake. During these battles <span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">, <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Arnold <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">only lost <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">one <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">ship <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">and none <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">of <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">his men <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">were <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">killed.

<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Later, in 1777, the British recaptured Fort Ticonderoga. The Americans <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">staying <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">there hurried to escape <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">and <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">fled <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">across <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">the bridge to Mt. Independence and Hubbardton. Unfortunately, the British <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">caught <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">up <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">with <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">this group. A <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">battle was <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">fought and the <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Green <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Mountain Boys had to retreat <span style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">.

<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Another <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">important <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">battle <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">was <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">the Battle <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">of <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Bennington <span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">. <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">The funny thing is that this battle <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">was <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">really fought <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">in <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Hoosick <span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">, <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">New York (about eight <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">miles from Bennington) <span style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">. Two years into the American Revolution, the British army badly needed supplies, such as horses, wagons, weapons and food. They intended to restock in the town of Bennington, located in the Grants. <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">A <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">British general <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">had heard that many <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">supplies were being stored <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">in Bennington. He <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">ordered <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">his men to <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">go <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">to Bennington, <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">capture <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">the town, <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">and get <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">the <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">supplies. <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">But the <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Green <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Mountain <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Boys <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">led by <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">General Stork <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">and <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Seth <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Warner found out about this plan and headed to New <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">York in <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">two <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">groups <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">to <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">stop <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">the <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">British. <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">The first group met the <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">British <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">and began to lose terribly. Just as they were about to retreat, the <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">second <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">group of <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">about 350 Green <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Mountain Boys arrived <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">and <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">the British fled without <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">getting <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">the <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">supplies. With their victory, the colonists were able to prevent the British army from entering and taking control of what is now Vermont. Although the Battle of Bennington was actually fought on New York soil, Vermonters take credit for its success. One of the world’s largest battle monuments honors the Vermonters who defeated the British that summer day located in Bennington, Vermont. The Battle of Bennington Monument stands 306 feet tall.

<span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Many other <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">battles <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">were <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">fought <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">during <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">the <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Revolution before <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">the American <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">colonists <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">won <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">their <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">independence from England <span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">, <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">but now the <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">"action <span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">" <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">headed <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">south away <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">from <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">the New <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Hampshire <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Grants. Our <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">role <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">in <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">helping America <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">gain <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">independence <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">was <span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">an important <span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">one.

<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Information included from: <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;"> __Uniquely Vermont__ by Emily Raabe <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16px;">__Vermont__ by Learner Publications Company