Seth Warner

Seth Warner
The Seth Warner statue at the Bennington Battle Monument
BornMay 17, 1743 (1743-05-17)
Woodbury, Colony of Connecticut
DiedDecember 26, 1784 (1784-12-27) (aged 41)
Roxbury, Connecticut
Buried
Seth Warner Burial Site, Roxbury, Connecticut
Allegiance Vermont Republic
 United States
Service / branch Continental Army
Years of service1775–1780
RankColonel
UnitGreen Mountain Boys (1775–1776)
Warner's Additional Regiment (1776–1780)
Battles / wars
RelationsRemember Baker (cousin)
Olin Levi Warner (great-great-nephew)

Seth Warner (May 17, 1743 [O.S. May 6, 1743] – December 26, 1784) was an American soldier. He was a Revolutionary War officer from Vermont who rose to the rank of Continental colonel and was often given the duties of a brigade commander. He is best known for his leadership in the capture of Fort Crown Point, the Battle of Longueuil, the siege of Quebec, the retreat from Canada, and the battles of Hubbardton and Bennington.[1]

Before the war, Warner was a captain in the Green Mountain Boys. He was outlawed by New York but never captured.

In the final years of the war, Warner remained loyal to the United States while the independent state of Vermont negotiated separately with the British.[2]

  1. ^ Thompson, Charles Miner. Independent Vermont. Houghton Mifflin Company (1942), pp. 329–34; Chipman, Daniel. Memoir of Colonel Seth Warner. L.W. Clark (1848); Williams, Samuel. "Historical Memoirs of Colonel Seth Warner," The Natural and Civil History of Vermont. Burlington (1809), vol. 2, pp. 445–50.
  2. ^ Jellison, Charles A. Ethan Allen: Frontier Rebel. Syracuse University Press (1969), pp. 266–67.