Published by the Vermont Division of Historic Preservation • October 1988

Producers: Kailyard Associates and Maureen O'Connor Burgess Design • Maps: Armand Poulin • Illustrations: Edward Epstein

Adapted for the World Wide Web by Amy McGill, with permission from the Vermont Division of Historic Preservation.

 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Introduction

The Battle in Five Phases:

Phase 1: 2.a.m. to 4 p.m., July 6. Americans evacuate Fort Ticonderoga and Mount Independence and march to Hubbardton with British in pursuit.

Phase 2: 5:00 a.m. to 6:30 a.m., July 7. American pickets fire on British scouts and withdraw. British reconnoiter the American camp while waiting for German troops.

Phase 3: 6:30 a.m. to 7:20 a.m. Major Robert Grant and the British Advance Guard drive in the American pickets. British deploy from column to line formation as Americans delay them along Sucker Brook.

Phase 4: 7:20 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. British attack Monument Hill earlier than expected. Americans counterattack. Battle for Monument Hill and the Castleton Road takes place.

Phase 5: 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Germans rescue the British. End of battle at 8:45 a.m. Americans retreat towars West Rutland.

Concluding Statement

Endnotes

Bibliography

Appendices (under construction)

A: A General Return of the Troops at Fort Ticonderoga and Mount Independence

B: Rationale in Support of 4,000 Officers and Men Commanded by Major General St. Clair

C: A Return of Non-Commissioned Officers and Private Soldiers in a Battalion [Regiment] Massachusetts Bay Commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Francis

D: Rationale for Strength of Officers and Men at Hubbardton at 1,100 to
1,200 Troops

E: A Return of Arms and Accouterments of Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment. Colonel Nathan Hale's Regiment, and Colonel Alexander Scammell's Regiment

F: A Return of the Number of Men under Lieutenant Colonel Udney Hay, Deputy Quartermaster General

G: Blacks at Hubbardton

H: Rationale for Absence of Artillery at Hubbardton

I: Rationale for Killed, Wounded, and Prisoners

J: Rationale for Warner's Remaining at Hubbardton Contrary to St. Clair's Order

K: Analysis and Explanation of Gerlach Map

L: Bomoseen Map