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having at the same time thrown a bridge of rafts 

 over the river, by which the army passed to that 

 place. With a view to suj^port Baum if it 

 should be found necessary, lieutenant colonel 

 Breyman's corps, consisting of the Brunswick 

 • grenadiers, light infantry and chassieurs, were 

 posted at Battenkill. 



General Stark having received information 

 that a party of Indians were at Cambridge, sent 

 lieutenant colonel Greg, on August the thir- 

 teenth, with a party of two hundred men, to 

 stop their progress. Towards night he was in- 

 formed by express that a large body of regulars 

 was in the rear of the Indians, and advancing 

 towards Bennington. On this intelligence, 

 Stark drew together his brigade, and the militia 

 that were at hand, and sent on to Manchester to 

 colonel Warner, to bring on his regimeiit ; he 

 sent expresses at the same time to the neigh- 

 boring militia, to join him with the utmost 

 speed. On the morning of the fourteenth he 

 inarched vvith his troops, and at the distance oi 

 seven miles he met Greg on the retreat, and the 

 enemy within a miie of him. Stark drew up 

 his troops in order of battle ; but the enemy 

 coming in sight, halted upon a very advanta- 

 geous piece of ground. Baum perceived the 

 Americans were too strong to be attacked with 

 his present force, and sent an express to Bur- 

 goyne with an account of his situation, and to 

 have Breyman march immediately to support 

 him. In the mean time small parties of the A- 

 mericans kept up a skirmish with the enemy, 

 killed and wounded thirty of thein, with two of 

 their Indian chiefs, without any loss to them- 



