The Bennington Battle Monument, completed in 1889 in Bennington, Vermont. The 301-foot-high obelisk commemorates the Battle of Bennington during the American Revolutionary War. In that battle, on August 17, 1777, Brigadier General John Stark and 1,400 New Hampshiremen, aided by Colonel Seth Warner of Vermont and others, defeated two detachments of General John Burgoyne's British Army, who were seeking to capture a store of weapons and food. The statue before the monument depicts Colonel Warner. Photo by Carol Highsmith.