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Friends of the Bennington Battlefield The Friends of the Bennington Battlefieldis a group of volunteers dedicated to the preservation development and promotion of the ground on which a pivotal battle of the American Revolution the Battle of Bennington was fought in the hamlet of Walloomsac New York on August 16 1777. On that day American forces under General John Stark including militia from New Hampshire Massachusetts Vermont and New York as well as Col. Seth Warners Continental regiment won a decisive and consequential victory against a detachment of British German Canadian Loyalist and Native troops sent by British General John Burgoyne to raid a Continental storehouse in Bennington. The members of the group in collaboration with the managers of Grafton Lakes State Park under the administration of the Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation OPRHP of New York seek to generate public interest and appreciation of the site and to explore it archaeologically and topographically with the objective of gaining and sharing knowledge of the Battle.