The Warner monument has text on the four sides of the base
Born in
Roxbury (then Woodbury) C.T. May 17, 1743
Resided in
Bennington VT. 1765-1784
Died Dec. 26, 1784 at Roxbury CT
Where he was buried with Honors of War
Age 41
"Tell future ages what a hero done"
This memorial erected by
Colonel Olin Scott
Bennington, A.D. 1910
Right side
Commander of the Green Mountain Boys
in Battles at
Breakenridge Farms, July and Oct. 1771
Otter Creek Falls 1773
Capture of Crown Point May 11, 1775
at Longueil and Invasion of Canada 1775
Hubbardton July 7, 1777
Bennington Aug. 16, 1777
in the Continental Service 1778-1780
Back side
An able statesman and soldier,
he assisted the people of Vermont
to establish their independence and to
organize an independent state government
under which they existed
for a period of 14 years when the state
was admitted to the Federal Union
and during the Revolutionary War aided the
13 colonies in acquiring their Independence
Left side
Col. Warner with the Green Mountain Boys,
won a decisive victory over the British
reinforcements in the second engagement
at Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777,
thus saving the military stores at that place,
crippling Burgoyne Army so as to stop his
invading march and establishing a turning point
in the War of the American Revolution.
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