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Excerpt from Meaning of the Battle of Bennington
It was fought on a frontier. The neighborhood had been settled less than twenty years. The place of the battle had as yet no recognized name. There were there only a rough bridge and some straggling farm buildings built of logs. The territory was remote from the populous parts of the country, and distant from the centre of military operations. The commander-in-chief was never remotely near the bat tle. The Ofiieer in Charge was commissioned only by New Hampshire. Less than ten days before the engagement he refused to obey superior officers who ordered him to march with his forces to the Hudson. For this, after the battle, but before the tidings of it arrived, Congress censured him. Then, when the news came, he was given a vote of thanks and promoted. Burgoyne said of him and of his men [they are] the most active and rebellious men on the continent, and [hang], like a gathering storm, on my lef They were a gathering storm, indeed, and much more than that. They portended the speedy capture of himself and of his entire army. But they were without form or comeliness or beauty that any desired, until the world was startled by the audacity and Splendor of their deed.
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