Saratoga-Yorktown 1777-1781 by Izabella Rusinowa

Once taken, Albany would serve as a staging ground from which the British could thereafter threaten New England or the lower Hudson River Valley, creating a potentially insurmountable rift between regions of the new nation. In June 1777, a British army stationed in Canada commanded by Lieutenant-General John Burgoyne began an expedition intent on capturing Albany, N.Y. How could two battles fought in rural upstate New York in the fall of 1777 possibly rate so importantly? But their significance stretches even further, into the scope and breadth of worldwide warfare as well. A more limited number were decisively significant to the American Revolutionary cause - the opening shots at Lexington and Concord, the Christmas crossing of the Delaware and surprise attack at Trenton, George Washington’s personal charge at Princeton, the double-envelopment of British forces at Cowpens, Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown.Īnd yet, the Battles of Saratoga have long held special distinction among the panoply of famed battles - the phrase “Turning Point of the Revolutionary War” was coined for Saratoga. There were hundreds of battles, skirmishes and sieges fought during the American War for Independence (1775–1783), and the sites of many are preserved as private, state and national historic sites, parks or monuments. Trapped on the hills overlooking the Hudson River, surrounded and running short of supplies, Lieutenant General John Burgoyne contemplated the impossible. No British army in history had ever surrendered. Saved Land Browse Interactive Map View active campaigns.Stop the Largest Rezoning in Orange County History.Send Students on School Field Trips to Battlefields – Your Gift Tripled!.

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Saratoga-Yorktown 1777-1781 by Izabella Rusinowa