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Burgoyne's and campaign
There he remained while Vermont declared independence, and John Burgoyne's campaign for the Hudson River met a stumbling block near Bennington in August 1777.
After the British victories at Hubbardton, Fort Ticonderoga, and Fort Anne, General John Burgoyne proceeded with the Saratoga campaign, with the goal of capturing Albany and gaining control of the Hudson River Valley, where Burgoyne's force could ( as the plan went ) meet the other pincers, dividing the colonies in two.
The effect on Burgoyne's campaign was significant.
Interestingly, a significant portion of Stark's force returned home and did not again become influential in the campaign until appearing at Saratoga on October 13 to complete the encirclement of Burgoyne's army.
Germain had overseen the overall strategy for the campaign and had significantly neglected to order General Howe to support Burgoyne's invasion, instead leaving him to believe that he was free to launch his own attack on Philadelphia.
However, poor British campaign planning for 1777 contributed to the failure of John Burgoyne's Saratoga campaign, which played a major role in the entry of France into the war.
The last part of Burgoyne's proposal, the advance by Howe up the Hudson from New York City, proved to be the most controversial part of the campaign.
The British did recapture the fort in July 1777 during the Saratoga campaign, but had abandoned it by November after Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga.
After General John Burgoyne's failed 1777 campaign for control of the Hudson River, Quebec was used as a base for raiding operations into the northern parts of the United States until the end of the war.
After the siege was lifted some Loyalists returned to Quebec while others ( including a number of the Indians ) joined Burgoyne's campaign on the Hudson.
James Phinney Baxter, in supporting this version of events in his 1887 history of Burgoyne's campaign, asserts that an exhumation of her body revealed only bullet wounds, and no tomahawk wounds.
Burgoyne's campaign had intended to use the Indians as a means to intimidate the colonists ; however, the American reaction to the news was not the one hoped for.
Burgoyne's campaign ultimately failed and he was forced to surrender after the Battles of Saratoga.
The British forces withdrew through Canada and joined Burgoyne's campaign at Fort Ticonderoga.
Following partially successful raid of Machias in 1777, as well as General John Burgoyne's failed Saratoga campaign, British war planners looked for other ways to gain control over the rebellious New England colonies, while most of their effort was directed at another campaign targeted at the southern colonies.
Active in the New York campaign, Washington sent him to assist Horatio Gates in the Northern Department, where he was wounded in the Battle of Bemis Heights, and was present at Burgoyne's surrender.
He failed to gain control over New Jersey, and his actions in taking Philadelphia contributed to the failure of John Burgoyne's Saratoga campaign.
Denied command of what became John Burgoyne's campaign, he resigned in 1777.
Baum served under Major General Friedrich Adolf Riedesel commanding the Dragoon Regiment Prinz Ludwig in support of General John Burgoyne's 1777 campaign to attack the Lake Champlain-Hudson River corridor, which ended in Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga on October 15, 1777.

Burgoyne's and with
France responded to Burgoyne's defeat by entering the war, openly allying with America and turning the Revolutionary War into a major worldwide war.
Burgoyne's progress towards Albany had initially met with great success, including the scattering of Seth Warner's men in the Battle of Hubbardton.
Lincoln returned to the American camp at Stillwater, where he and General Philip Schuyler hatched a plan for Lincoln, with 500 men, to join with Stark and Warner in actions to harass Burgoyne's communications and supply lines at Skenesboro.
Burgoyne's troops moved in the next day, with advance guards pursuing the retreating Americans.
Bathsheba's pregnancy occasioned a series of desperate plots to murder her husband, finally brought to fruition with the aid of two British deserters from General John Burgoyne's defeated army.
The original settlement, which may have supplied wood to Benedict Arnold's troops, was completely destroyed during the American Revolutionary War in connection with British General John Burgoyne's march from Canada to Saratoga.
When Burgoyne's army approached, and General Schuyler with his forces fell back from Fort Edward to the Islands at the mouth of the Mohawk, the people on this side of the Hudson took refuge in Lansingburgh.
Burgoyne's surrender, coupled with Howe's near defeat at Germantown, dramatically altered the strategic balance of the conflict .< ref > Mintz, p. 234
General Arthur St. Clair, who had been left in command of Fort Ticonderoga and its surrounding defenses with a garrison of about 3, 000 regulars and militia, had no idea on July 1 of the full strength of Burgoyne's army, large elements of which were then just away.
The advance of Burgoyne's army to Fort Edward was, as with the approach to Ticonderoga, preceded by a wave of Indians, which chased away the small contingent of troops left there by Schuyler.
These forces precipitated the Battle of Freeman's Farm when they made contact with Burgoyne's flank.
On October 3, Clinton sailed up the Hudson River with 3, 000 men, and on October 6, one day after receiving Burgoyne's appeal, captured the highland forts named Clinton and Montgomery.
In response to Burgoyne's surrender, Congress declared December 18, 1777 as a national day " for solemn Thanksgiving and praise " in recognition of the military success at Saratoga ; it was the nation's first official observance of a holiday with that name.
Yet another possibility comes from the German mercenaries who were captured with John Burgoyne's army at Saratoga.
With this collapse of Burgoyne's center, the Americans captured the wounded Acland and Major Williams along with the column's artillery.
He then tried to join up with Burgoyne's army near Saratoga, but had only reached Fort Ticonderoga by the time Burgoyne surrendered his army in October 1777.
As John Burgoyne's expedition neared the Hudson River during the summer of 1777, Colonel John McCrea took up his duty with a regiment of the Albany County militia.
British Senior officer Sir Francis Clerke, General Burgoyne's chief aide-de-camp, galloped onto the field with a message.
It also provided Major General Horatio Gates with time to establish new positions near Saratoga, New York, to block Burgoyne's further advance, and then, once Gates had a numerical advantage, to cut off the British line of withdrawal to Canada.
He participated with his unit in two important battles at Freeman's Farm, where Burgoyne's units were so pummeled that " Gentleman Johnny " was eventually forced to surrender his whole army.
Arriving in Canada with the Brunswick army in the winter of 1776, Burgoyne detailed Baum with around 600 Brunswickers, British, and Indians from Fort Edward to try to collect provisions, horses, and Loyalist reinforcements for Burgoyne's main force for the march south toward Albany.

Burgoyne's and surrender
The battle was an important victory for the rebel cause, as it reduced Burgoyne's army in size by almost 1, 000 men, led his Indian support to largely abandon him, and deprived him of needed supplies, all factors that contributed to Burgoyne's eventual surrender at Saratoga.
There are red markers depicting the position of John Burgoyne's army near Saratoga at the time of its surrender in 1777.
Having all but cut off the last means of escape, Gates accepted General Burgoyne's surrender of his entire force at Saratoga on October 16, 1777.
Stark's action contributed to the surrender of Burgoyne's northern army after the Battles of Saratoga by raising American morale, by keeping the British from getting supplies, and by subtracting several hundred men from the enemy order of battle.
Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga
On October 17, following a ceremony in which Burgoyne gave his sword to Gates, only to have it returned, Burgoyne's army ( approaching 6, 000 strong ) marched out to surrender their arms while the American musicians played " Yankee Doodle ".
The British government of Lord North came under sharp criticism when the news of Burgoyne's surrender reached London.
The surrender was negotiated in the Convention of Saratoga, and Burgoyne's remnant army became known as the Convention Army.
There are red markers depicting the position of John Burgoyne's army near Saratoga at the time of its surrender in 1777.
In contrast, the northern army of General Horatio Gates had won a signal victory over John Burgoyne's forces, compelling Burgoyne to surrender his entire army after the Battles of Saratoga.
He is notable for being present at three major surrenders during the war: he attended John Burgoyne's surrender of a British army after the Battles of Saratoga, he oversaw the largest American surrender of the war at the 1780 Siege of Charleston, and he formally accepted the British surrender at Yorktown.
Following General John Burgoyne's surrender at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, several thousand British and German ( Hessian and Brunswick ) troops were marched to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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