Posts Tagged ‘Defeat of the Prince Ludwig Dragoons at the Battle of Bennington’

When Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum and Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich von Breymann (from the German principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel) left Burgoyne, they were told by Burgoyne that the town of Bennington, VT, was lightly defended by a small group of militia totaling about 400 men. The German officers were confident that their force of 1,400 men would easily defeat any militia they would find