BENNINGTON

a town of Vermont, jn Bennington co., of which it is the county seat. It is on the New York Central Railroad. It includes several villages. Its industries include woolen mills and knit goods factories. In the neighborhood are important deposits of iron ore. Bennington is famous historically for being the scene of a battle fought on August 16, 1777, when General Stark, with his ‘Green Mountain Boys’ defeated a large British force sent by General Burgoyne to capture the public stores in Bennington. A memorial battle monument commemorates this event. Pop. 1920, 9,982. cent. Fr. trouvere, who wrote a verse chronicle of the Dukes of Normandy, from Rollo onwards, in some 40,000 lines,