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

Battery Park -- Scene of British Attack in War of 1812 is a Vermont historical marker in Burlington, Chittenden County.

Battery Park, Burlington

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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.

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Historical maps covering this location

1804 · Vermont. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1810 · United States of America, northern part. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1816 · Vermont (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1823 · Vermont (Carey, 1823) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1827 · New Hampshire (A. Finley, 1827) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Vermont (Carey, 1823), 1823, covering the location of Battery Park -- Scene of British Attack in War of 1812, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Vermont (Carey, 1823), 1823, covering this location. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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