1. Major-General John Stark was an American military officer who served during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War.
24 Facts About John Stark
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John Stark became known as the "Hero of Bennington" for his exemplary service at the Battle of Bennington in 1777.
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John Stark was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire in 1728.
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John Stark's father, Archibald Stark was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to parents who were from Wiltshire, England; Stark's father met his future wife when he moved to Londonderry in Ireland.
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When Stark was eight years old, his family moved to Derryfield, where he lived for the rest of his life.
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John Stark married Elizabeth "Molly" Page, with whom he had 11 children including his eldest son Caleb John Stark.
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John Stark grabbed the stick from the first warrior's hands and proceeded to attack him, taking the rest of the warriors by surprise.
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The chief was so impressed by this heroic act that John Stark was adopted into the tribe, where he spent the winter.
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John Stark served as a second lieutenant under Major Robert Rogers during the French and Indian War.
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John Stark returned to New Hampshire to his wife, whom he had married the previous year.
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John Stark made his headquarters in the confiscated Isaac Royall House in Medford, Massachusetts.
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John Stark ordered Major General William Howe to prepare to land his troops.
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John Stark surveyed the ground and immediately saw that the British would probably try to flank the rebels by landing on the beach of the Mystic River, below and to the left of Bunker Hill.
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John Stark led his men to the low ground between Mystic Beach and the hill and ordered them to "fortify" a two-rail fence by stuffing straw and grass between the rails.
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John Stark noticed an additional gap in the defense line and ordered Lieutenant Nathaniel Hutchins from his brother William's company and others to follow him down a 9-foot-high bank to the edge of the Mystic River.
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Later in the battle, as the rebels were forced from the hill, John Stark directed the New Hampshire regiment's fire to provide cover for Colonel Prescott's retreating troops.
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John Stark agreed, but upon returning home, learned that while he had been fighting in New Jersey, a fellow New Hampshire Colonel named Enoch Poor had been promoted to Brigadier General in the Continental Army.
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John Stark, an experienced woodsman and fighting commander, had been passed over for someone with no combat experience and apparently no will to fight.
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John Stark accepted on the strict condition that he would not be answerable to Continental Army authority.
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John Stark refused to obey Lincoln, who was another general whom he believed was unfairly promoted over his head.
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John Stark's action contributed to the surrender of Burgoyne's northern army after the Battles of Saratoga by raising American morale, by keeping the British from getting supplies, and by subtracting several hundred men from the enemy order of battle.
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John Stark's brigade moved into a position at John Stark's Knob cutting off Burgoyne's retreat to Lake George and Lake Champlain.
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New Castle's Fort John Stark was renamed for the General in 1900.
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Detailed information on John Stark is not easy to find.