1st Edition

Saratoga The Decisive Battle

By Rupert Furneaux Copyright 1971
318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

The Grand Strategy, the imaginative plan to divide the rebellious American colonies, ended in disaster. On October 17, 1777, General Sir John Burgoyne, alone, unaided and stranded in the American wilderness, capitulated with his army at Saratoga in upper New York State. It was the ‘turning point’ of the Revolution, which culminated four years later in the British surrender at Yorktown. Creasy... Read more

Acknowledgements.  1. London  2. Montreal  3. St John’s  4. Fort Ticoneroga  5. Mount Defiance  6. Hubbardton  7. Fort Edward  8. New York  9. Fort Stanwix  10. Bennington  11. The Hudson  12. Swords Farm  13. Freeman’s Farm  14. Neilson’s Barn  15. The Highlands  16. Bemis Heights  17. Saratoga  18. Cambridge (Mass.) – London.  Bibliography.  Index.

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Rupert Furneaux