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Battery Park -- Scene of British Attack in War of 1812

Chittenden County · Battery Park, Burlington

Here in June 1813, a Vermonter, Trent Churchill, and men built a parapet and set up a battery. On August 3 a British gunboat and 2 sloops, 12 miles offshore, began a cannonade. This attack was repulsed in 20 minutes by the American Battery and by 2 of Commodore Macdonough's armed scows.

Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Vermont Division for Historic Preservation

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