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Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum, commander of the enemy forces, was mortally wounded in the Battle of Bennington and died two days later on August 18, 1777, in a house that once stood a few feet east of this site and was removed about 1870. He was buried on the north bank of the Walloomsac River west of this site, though the precise spot is not now known.
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Shaftsbury, Vermont · United States
