Today marks the anniversary of the Battle of Bennington. The Battle of Bennington is a lesser-known battle from the American Revolutionary War and the Bennington Flag is a more obscure pre-Constitutional flag. So what happened at the Battle of Bennington?
The battle saw a force of 2,000 Continentals, mostly made up of New Hampshire and Massachusetts militiamen, square off against a force of less than 1,500 loyalist forces of Brits and their Hessian mercenaries. The Continental forces were augmented by the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont, whose flag, that of the Vermont Republic (who had North America’s first written constitution), is much better known than the Bennington Flag.
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