Ball’s Battlefield

Major Ball’s Squadron 2nd Light Dragoons U.S. Army while escorting Col. Wells 17th U.S. Infantry from Major General Harrison’s headquarters at Fort Seneca to relieve Major Croghan of the command of Fort Stephenson for alleged insubordination in refusing to evacuate ...

Monmouth Battlefield State Park

The Battle of Monmouth

During the afternoon of Sunday, June 28, 1778, the hills and meadows in front of you disappeared under clouds of gun smoke.

When the firing subsided, over 600 men were dead, dying or wounded, and the Continental Army ...

A Crucial Crossing, a General’s Namesake, a Battlefield Icon

Known at the time of the battle as the Rohrbach or Lower Bridge, this picturesque crossing over Antietam Creek was built in 1836 to connect Sharpsburg with Rohrersville, the next town to the south. It was actively used for traffic ...

The Carillon Battlefield

In the mid-18th century, this battlefield was a focal point in the Seven Years’ War, a world war between France and Great Britain. Here the two super-powers struggled for control of the Lake Champlain Lake George water highway, the strategic ...

A Battlefield Landmark

The Thomas J. West house stood as a prominent part of the battlefield scene—a goal for attacking Confederates and a landmark along the Union line. Most of the fresh Federal troops marching to the front on July 1 moved past ...

Battlefield Archaeology

The Battle of Monmouth – 28 June 1778

Where Was Molly Hays during the Battle of Monmouth?

Documents and Archaeology provides clues.

During the Battle, Commander-in-Chief George Washington watched approvingly as Captain Francis Proctor’s artillery company cannonaded the British. Joseph Plumb Martin noted ...

Wisconsin Heights Battlefield

Near this site the Sauk chieftain Black Hawk and his band were overtaken by Wisconsin and Illinois troops on July 21, 1832

Marker is on State Highway 78 0.4 miles south of County Road Y, on the left when traveling south. ...

Field of Battle

This photograph, taken from the heights to your right-rear, shows the landscape in front of you as it appeared the year after the Battle of Fredericksburg. The town of Fredericksburg sits atop the ridge in the distance; the spire of ...

Bennington Battle Field

August 16, 1777

- • • ? American Forces

- ? ? British x ? ? Indians

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Erected by the

State of New York

August 16, 1927

Marker can be reached from New York Route 67, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bennington Battlefield

Bennington Battlefield

has been designated a

Registered National

Historic Landmark

Under the provisions of the

Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935

this site possesses exceptional value

in commemorating and illustrating

the history of the United States.

U.S. Department of the Interior

National Park Service

1961

Marker can be reached from New ...