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Battle of Springfield. Major-General John Stark (August 28, 1728 – May 8, 1822) was an American military officer who served during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. He became known as the "Hero of Bennington" for his exemplary service at the Battle of Bennington in 1777.
- 1775–1783
Born August 28th, 1728, in Nutfield, New Hampshire, Maj. Gen. John Stark would grow to be a man that fully embodied the words, “Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.”. The “Hero of Bennington” not only lived by these words, he wrote them 136 years before it became New Hampshire’s official state motto.
9 de abr. de 2024 · John Stark (born August 28, 1728, Londonderry, New Hampshire [U.S.]—died May 8, 1822, Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S.) was a prominent American general during the American Revolution who led attacks that cost the British nearly 1,000 men and contributed to the surrender of the British general John Burgoyne at Saratoga by blocking ...
5 de abr. de 2022 · John Stark (August 28, 1728 – May 8, 1822) General Stark was a true warrior of his time; hardened by the harsh reality of growing up in the wilderness, cast into a deadly caldron as a young lieutenant of Rogers’ Ranger’s savage troops, and in the American Revolution, commanding a rag-tag rabble of steely farmers and hunters to ...
27 de dic. de 2019 · General John Stark: A Patriot Who Rose Above Rank. Overlooking a studied insult by Congress, John Stark rallied to the Patriot cause at Bennington in 1777. by John Koster 12/27/2019. In the decisive action of the 1777 Battle of Bennington American militiamen directed by Gen. John Stark overwhelm the German redoubt and silence its cannons.
20 de feb. de 2024 · John Stark was an experienced military leader and frontiersman who led American forces to victory at the Battle of Bennington. Stark’s slogan, “Live Free or Die” is the state motto of New Hampshire.
As this was happening, Col. John Stark was busy making trouble with orders he’d received from the Continental Congress. Stark, a veteran of Bunker Hill and the New Jersey victories, who’d commanded the New Hampshire Line, was sent back north to recruit more soldiers at Washington’s request.
