In the late summer of 1777, the British under John Burgoyne sent a major invasion army south from Quebec, with the intention of splitting off rebellious New England.

He was sent by Burgoyne to raid Bennington in the disputed New Hampshire Grants area for horses, draft animals, and other supplies.

In response to a proposal first made on July 22 by the commander of his German troops, Baron Riedesel, Burgoyne sent a detachment of about 800 troops under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum from Fort Miller on a foraging mission to acquire horses for the German dragoons, draft animals to assist in moving the army, and to harass the enemy.

Baum sent a message to Burgoyne following the first contact indicating that the American force was larger than expected, but that it was likely to retreat before him.

He then realized that at least part of his first message was incorrect, so he sent a second message to Burgoyne, requesting reinforcements.

As it happened, Burgoyne sent an expedition under Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum to capture American supplies at Bennington, Vermont.

A third supporting expedition expected by General Burgoyne never materialized ( apparently due to miscommunication on that year's campaign goals ) when General William Howe sent his army to take Philadelphia rather than sending a portion of it up the Hudson River from New York City.

Burgoyne sent forces out from his main body to pursue the retreating army, which St. Clair had sent south via two different routes.

Pursuing this idea, Burgoyne sent Colonel Friedrich Baum's regiment toward western Massachusetts and the New Hampshire Grants on August 9, along with some Brunswick dragoons.

Most of Baum's detachment never returned, and the reinforcements he had sent after them came back after they were ravaged in the August 16 Battle of Bennington, which deprived Burgoyne of nearly 1, 000 men and the much-needed supplies.

News reaches Burgoyne that American rebels have taken a nearby town, so he and his troops are in danger, especially since orders from London that would have sent reinforcements were never dispatched.

Phillips was promoted to the rank of Major-General and sent to Quebec in 1776, along with his friend General Henry Clinton and General John Burgoyne, to be the commander of all artillery in the province.

A copy of this paper was sent to Wellington who wrote back a letter to Burgoyne in January 1847 expressing his agreement with all Burgoyne ’ s views and reiterating his earlier arguments.

Seeing he was badly outnumbered, Baum had requested reinforcements from Burgoyne, who sent Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich von Breymann and a corps of light infantrymen and Brunswick grenadiers to support him.

Following a brief spell in Ireland and the outbreak of War in the American Colonies the Regiment was sent to Canada to become a part of an Expedition under Major General John Burgoyne designed to divide the New England colonies from their neighbors to the south.

Then the king came to the Haye in Touraine and his men had passed the river of Loire, some at the bridge of Orléans and some at Meung, at Saumur, at Blois, and at Tours and whereas they might: they were in number a twenty thousand men of arms beside other ; there were a twenty-six dukes and earls ( Counts ) and more than sixscore banners, and the four sons of the king, who were but young, the duke Charles of Normandy, the lord Louis, that was from thenceforth duke of Anjou, and the lord John duke of Berry, and the lord Philip, who was after duke of Burgoyne ".

Burgoyne admired independent thought amongst common soldiers, and encouraged his men to use their own initiative, in stark contrast to the established system employed at the time by the British army.

Rather than an outright unconditional surrender, Burgoyne had agreed to a Convention that involved his men surrendering their weapons, and returning to Europe with a pledge not to return to North America.

Burgoyne retired to his starting positions, but about 500 men poorer for the effort.

During the next week, as Burgoyne dug in, Morgan and his men moved to his north.

What Burgoyne had been unaware of was that St. Clair's calls for militia support following the withdrawal from Ticonderoga had been answered, and General John Stark had placed 2, 000 men at Bennington.

Burgoyne considered renewing the attack the next day, but called it off when Fraser noted that many men were fatigued from the previous day's exertions.

Clinton wrote to Burgoyne on September 12 that he would " make a push at Montgomery in about ten days " if " you think 2000 men can assist you effectually.

In the spring of 1777 Gilman and the rest of the officers and men of the 3d New Hampshire marched to Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain to participate in an attempt by American forces to halt the advance of a powerful army of British and German regulars and Indian auxiliaries under General John Burgoyne.

Allen, who had been outraged at the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga to Burgoyne at the beginning of July, complained to Stark that if his men did not get to fight at Bennington they would never answer another call to arms.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga – After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.

The Americans held it until June 1777, when British forces under General John Burgoyne again occupied high ground above the fort and threatened the Continental Army troops, leading them to withdraw from the fort and its surrounding defenses.

The British offensive resumed the next year in the Saratoga campaign under General John Burgoyne.

Lee went back to Europe, transferred to the 103rd Foot as a major, and served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Portuguese army, fighting against the Spanish invasion of Portugal ( 1762 ) in which he distinguished himself under John Burgoyne at the Battle of Vila Velha.

During the American Revolution, British troops under John Burgoyne camped on the Bouquet River.

This turned out to be an egregious tactical blunder, as, when the British Army under General John Burgoyne arrived in July, he did exactly what Kościuszko would have done and had his engineers place artillery on the hill.

The plan, largely of his own creation, was for Burgoyne and his force to cross Lake Champlain from Quebec and capture Ticonderoga before advancing on Albany, New York, where they would rendezvous with another British army under General Howe coming north from New York City, and a smaller force that would come down the Mohawk River valley under Barry St. Leger.

News of the capture of a separate British army under John Burgoyne threw British plans into disarray.

* 1777 – Two Battles of Saratoga ( September 19 and October 7 ) conclude with the surrender of the British army under General Burgoyne.

General Burgoyne would see action in the Saratoga Campaign, a disaster that saw his capture, as well as that of 7, 500 troops under his command.

In December 1775 he directed the city's defences in the Battle of Quebec and the ensuing siege, which was broken by the arrival of British troops in May 1776 under command of John Burgoyne, who was appointed Second-in-Command.

Before he left Skenesboro, Burgoyne was joined by about 500 Indians ( mostly Ottawas, but also Fox, Mississauga, Chippewa, and Ojibwe, as well as members of the Iroquois ) from the Great Lakes region under the leadership of St. Luc de la Corne and Charles Michel de Langlade.

Though the American loss was 673 ; the British loss was 575, but along with the Army's success under Brigadier General Horatio Gates at Saratoga on October 17 when John Burgoyne surrendered, the battle led to the official recognition of the Americans by France, which formed an alliance with the Americans afterward.

One example of this Riedesel's disagreements with Burgoyne came after his victory at the Battle of Hubbardton, when rebels under Seth Warner gathered to attack loyalists under Philip Skene at Castle Town, Vermont.

Sent to Canada as part of the reinforcements for Benedict Arnold's army besieging Quebec, he arrived just in time to witness the arrival of 8, 000 British reinforcements under General John Burgoyne which precipitated the collapse of the American effort in Canada.

In June 1777, the British Army, under the command of General " Gentleman Johnny " John Burgoyne, launched a two-pronged attack from Quebec.

He ran away from home when a boy, enlisted in the British army, and served under General John Burgoyne during the American Revolutionary War.

* October 16-Articles of Capitulation of 5, 782 British, under Burgoyne are written.