Between June of 1812 and June of 1815, Burlington’s War of 1812 military cantonment stood in this vicinity, with a guardhouse, stables, barracks, carpenters’ and blacksmiths’ shops, a large general hospital, officers quarters, and a sand and sod battery of thirteen cannons. Burlington came under fire only once during the war, on August 3, 1813, when the battery and two armed scows repulsed British Lt. Colonel Murray’s two sloops and gunboat, which then raided Shelburne Bay to the south, captured two small commercial vessels, and burned the 50-ton commercial sloop Essex. Although no casualties were reported in this battle, Burlington has many unmarked military graves from the war. Scores died of ailments typical of 19th century soldiers, including typhoid, dysentery, tuberculosis, and pneumonia, while others died from accidents or from injuries sustained at the battles of LaColle Mills in present-day Québec in March 1814 and Plattsburgh/Lake Champlain in September 1814. Approximately 500 soldiers died at the cantonment and were buried just north of here, representing about thirty different Regular regiments of infantry, artillery, and dragoons, with men from states from Maine to North Carolina.