page_title: Seth Warner
section_title: Battle of Hubbardton
hierarchical_section_title: Seth Warner / American Revolution / Burgoyne's invasion, 1777 / Battle of Hubbardton
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a map depicting the action of the the 1777 Battle of Hubbardton drawn by a British officer after the battle. The caption reads: Plan of the action at Huberton&#160;: under Brigadier Genl. Frazer, supported by Major Genl. Reidesel, on the 7th July 1777 / drawn by P. Gerlach, Deputy Quarter Master General; engraved by Wm. Faden.
context_page_description: Seth Warner was a Revolutionary War officer from Vermont who rose to rank of Continental colonel and was often given the duties of a brigade commander. He is best known for his leadership in the capture of Fort Crown Point, the Battle of Longueuil, the siege of Quebec, the retreat from Canada, and the battles of Hubbardton and Bennington.
  Before the war, he was a captain in the Green Mountain Boys. He was outlawed by New York but never captured.
  In the final years of the war, he remained loyal to the United States while the independent state of Vermont negotiated separately with the British.
context_section_description: On the afternoon of July 6, the main body of the retreating army passed through Hubbardton, a frontier settlement about 20 miles from Mount Independence. General St. Clair ordered Warner to follow with the rearguard and "to halt about one and a half-mile [sic] short of the main body which would remain that night at Castle-Town [Castleton], about six miles from Hubbarton [sic]."
  The rearguard under Francis reached Hubbardton in the late afternoon. Warner decided to remain in the settlement that night, telling officers "the men were much fatigued." About 1100 men were under his command: his own regiment, Francis’s handpicked rearguard, the Second New Hampshire under Colonel Nathan Hale, and several hundred sick and stragglers, who camped in a valley by a small stream. Warner and most of the brigade occupied a hill above the road (today’s Monument Hill at the Vermont State Historic Site).
  On July 7, Fraser attacked the men in valley before 7 a.m. and scattered them, but soon met disciplined resistance. The main battle took place on Monument Hill where the advantage seesawed back and forth until the arrival of German troops from the Duchy of Brunswick under command of Major General Friedrich Adolf Riedesel.
  Francis was killed, and Warner ordered a retreat over Pittsford Ridge, the road to Castleton having been cut off by British grenadiers.
  The Americans suffered by one study 41 killed, 96 wounded, and 234 taken prisoner. In comparison, the British and German casualties were 60 killed and 148 wounded. By 18th-century standards Hubbardton was a British victory, but more recently the battle has been called a "classic example of a rear guard action." As a result of Hubbardton, Fraser stopped his pursuit of the main American army.
caption: A map of the Hubbardton Battlefield drawn by deputy quartermaster general P. Gerlach
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