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Battles of Saratoga; Part of the American Revolutionary War's Saratoga campaign: Surrender of General Burgoyne, an 1822 portrait by John Trumbull depicting John Burgoyne, a British Army general, surrendering to General Horatio Gates, who refused to take his sword.
27 de feb. de 2024 · The Battles of Saratoga were two engagements fought by a British army under General John Burgoyne and an American army under General Horatio Gates near the town of Saratoga, NY, during the American Revolution. The battles resulted in an American victory, and the surrender of Burgoyne's army.
Battles of Saratoga. Siege of Fort Ticonderoga. John Burgoyne (born 1722, Sutton, Bedfordshire, England—died June 4, 1792, London) was a British general, best remembered for his defeat by superior American forces in the Saratoga (New York) campaign of 1777, during the American Revolution.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
One of the most decisive American battles of the Revolutionary War, Saratoga ended British general John Burgoyne's attempt to control the Hudson River Valley. The outcome convinced the Court of King Louis XVI that the Americans could hold their own against the British Army, sealing the alliance between America and France.
On September 19 Burgoyne moved south and engaged the Continental forces at the Battle of Freeman’s Farm, also called the First Battle of Saratoga. Early in the battle, many British officers were killed in the open fields by Col. Daniel Morgan ’s sharpshooters, who were concealed in the thick woods.
That decision proved fatal to Burgoyne’s efforts in New York. General Horatio Gates’ men surrounded Burgoyne and his 5,800 men, causing Burgoyne to surrender on October 17, 1777 at Saratoga. Burgoyne is often credited for the British’s terribly embarrassing defeat.
1 de sept. de 2021 · As Howe debated an attack on the American capital of Philadelphia, British General John Burgoyne proposed a three-pronged attack on the city of Albany in upstate New York to cut the New England colonies away from those south and west of the Hudson River.
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