- Seth Warner
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name=Seth Warner
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born=May 17 ,1743
died=December 26 ,1784
placeofbirth=Roxbury, Connecticut
placeofdeath=Vermont
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branch=Continental Army
serviceyears=1764-1782
rank=Colonel
unit=Green Mountain Boys
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battles=Battle of Crown Point Battle of Hubbardton Battle of Bennington
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relations=Ethan Allen ,Olin Levi Warner
laterwork=::"This article is not about the mathematician Seth Warner, author of several textbooks, in particular about
topological ring s."Seth Warner (
May 17 ,1743 -December 26 ,1784 ) was born in Roxbury,Connecticut . In 1763, he removed with his father to Bennington in what was then the ‘New Hampshire Grants ’. He established there as a huntsman.Warner proved his qualities to the local community, and was elected Captain of the
Green Mountain Boys , the local militia formed to resistNew York authority overVermont . With his cousin and the militia’s founder,Ethan Allen , he was outlawed, but never captured.During the Revolutionary War, he fought on the side of the
Continental Army , though later in the war as a foreign unit under the Republic of Vermont, and was granted a commission as a colonel.He made a mark in such engagements as theBattle of Crown Point , the Montreal campaign, theBattle of Hubbardton and-–most famously-–theBattle of Bennington .Then, in 1782, with his health failing, he returned to Roxbury. Warner was never skilled in financial matters, and failed to make money on land speculation like so many others in the new territories. At the end of his life, his wife Hester had to apply to Congress for charity. After a long delay a grant of 2,000 acres (8 km²) in the northeast of the state was made, the so-called Warner’s Grant. The grant, however, came too late; Warner had already been dead for four years. A further honor came with theBennington Battle Monument inBennington, Vermont , which includes a sculpture of Warner on its grounds.Warner’s great-grandnephew
Olin Levi Warner , was a well-known sculptor.
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