The Saratoga campaign in 1777 was an attempt by the British high command for North America to gain military control of the strategically important Hudson River valley during the American Revolutionary War. It ended in the surrender of the British army, which historian Edmund Morgan argues, "was a great turning point of the war, because it won for Americans the foreign assistance which was the last element needed for victory."
Surrender of General Burgoyne a portrait by John Trumbull
General John Burgoyne, portrait by Joshua Reynolds
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, portrait by Antoine-François Callet
Fort Ticonderoga from Mount Defiance
Philip John Schuyler was an American general in the Revolutionary War and a United States Senator from New York. He is usually known as Philip Schuyler, while his son is usually known as Philip J. Schuyler.
Portrait by Jacob H. Lazarus after a miniature by John Trumbull
Schuyler's wife, Catherine Van Rensselaer, depicted in a portrait by Walter Robinson, c. 1795
Schuyler Mansion, which was constructed from 1761 to 1765
Schuyler's Country House used during the Revolution, in Schuylerville