First contact at Sucker Brook;Battle of Hubbardton Traditional Cache
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First contact at Sucker Brook;Battle of Hubbardton
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A Cache near Sucker Brook. Where the Battle of Hubbardton began early on the morning of July 7th, 1777.
As darkness turned to dawn the sultry morning of July 7, Warner's rear guard was encamped in the vicinity of what is now called Monument Hill. The exhausted men were resting before continuing south to join St. Clair's troops at Castleton.
At 5:00 a.m. American pickets in the saddle near Sargent Hill, to the northwest of Monument Hill, spotted approaching British scouts. The pickets fired, and moved back to join their main body. By 6:30, as the first British soldiers reached Sucker Brook, the American delaying companies started firing-killing Major Grant and 21 others. Thus began the Battle of Hubbardton, the first time Burgoyne's army met the resistance and bravery of Americans in battle.
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