On Saturday, June 15, Friederike Baer, author of “Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War,” will give a talk about the subject of her book at the Mount Independence State Historic Site in Orwell.
Oct. 19, 1781, is a fairly well known date in United States history. On that day British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered to French and American forces at Yorktown, Va., marking the beginning of the end of the Revolutionary War.
It was on March 25, 1777, that a patriotic, 49-year-old Silas Stone decided to leave the family farm in Dublin, N.H., to begin what he thought would be a three-year hitch in the Continental Army.
Fort Ticonderoga will pay tribute to the men and women who lost their lives in service to their country during the American Revolution.
Many of the historic objects are fragments of necessary items used by the soldiers at Mount Independence.
