HUBBARDTON BATTLEFIELD Battlefield — Hubbardton, Vermont Status: Historic site · Access: Open to public Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/hubbardton-battlefield-hubbardton-vermont/ Preserved site of the July 7, 1777 Revolutionary War battle. A battlefield in Hubbardton, Vermont, Hubbardton Battlefield is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Preserved site of the July 7, 1777 Revolutionary War battle. The archive files it under dark history, battlefields and the Revolutionary War. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 2 documented facts, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors. Hubbardton is Vermont's only Revolutionary War battlefield — the July 7, 1777 rearguard action where the retreating American army's rear guard held off the British pursuit and saved the withdrawing force. Colonel Ebenezer Francis was killed covering the retreat — the file's named dead being the officer who bought the army's escape with his own. The 1859 monument marks the field — the file's spine being a battle that saved an army and cost its commander, on the only Revolutionary ground Vermont kept. THE REARGUARD'S FIGURES The reports are the battlefield register: figures on the field — the file's phrasing that ground that took casualties rarely stays quiet in local memory. Hubbardton's figures are the rearguard's: the men who stood so the army could run, reportedly still on the ground they held. The file's haunting is proportionate to the battle's function — a rearguard action's ghosts being the men who stayed behind, the field keeping the ones who didn't retreat. WHY THIS FILE MATTERS Hubbardton is the archive's rearguard file — Vermont's only Revolutionary battle, where the rear guard's stand saved the army and the colonel died doing it. The figures on the field are the lore; the rearguard's sacrifice is the record. A battle whose whole purpose was to be left behind keeps the men who were — the file's suggestion being that the rearguard's ground keeps its rearguard. FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified · [Local folklore] apparition: Reported figures on the field. Ground that took casualties rarely stays quiet in local memory, and Hubbardton Battlefield in Hubbardton, Vermont took its share. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The account appears in 'Hubbardton'. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it. source: Hubbardton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hubbardton) HISTORY — 2 documented facts · A Revolutionary War rearguard battle protected the retreating American army. Colonel Ebenezer Francis was killed; an 1859 monument commemorates the battle and his believed burial place. A fort with documented casualties writes its own foundation — the lore comes after. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'The Battle of Hubbardton'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from. · The July 7, 1777 battle is documented. A fort with documented casualties writes its own foundation — the lore comes after. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. Sources including 'Hubbardton' carry the record. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry. SOURCES — 3 cited · The Battle of Hubbardton — Hubbardton Historical Society https://hubbardton.org/history/the-battle-of-hubbardton/ · Hubbardton Battlefield — Vermont State Historic Sites https://historicsites.vermont.gov/hubbardton-battlefield · Hubbardton — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hubbardton — HauntHunt is a research archive. Claims are filed as reported — documented where sources exist, marked as folklore or unverified where they do not. Methodology: https://haunthunt.com/methodology/ · Corrections: https://haunthunt.com/report/