Barrimore Matthew "Barry" St. Leger was a British Army officer. St. Leger was active in the Saratoga Campaign, commanding an invasion force that unsuccessfully besieged Fort Stanwix. St. Leger remaine
Barry St. Leger
The Saratoga campaign in 1777 was an attempt by the British to gain military control of the strategically important Hudson River valley during the American Revolutionary War. It ended in the surrender
Barry St. Leger
…Barrimore Matthew "Barry" St. Leger (1 May 1733 – 23 December 1793) was a British Army officer. St. Leger was active in the Saratoga Campaign, commanding an invasion force that unsuccessfully besieged Fort Stanwix. St. Leger remained on the frontier for the duration of the war; after its…
Surrender of General Burgoyne John Trumbull, 1821
Portrait of John Burgoyne by Joshua Reynolds, 1766
Illustration of a Royal Artillery soldier in Canada in 1777
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, portrait by Antoine-François Callet