Jane McCrea
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Jane McCrea was an American woman who was killed by a Native American warrior serving alongside a British Army expedition under the command of John Burgoyne during the American Revolutionary War. Enga
The Death of Jane McCrea by John Vanderlyn, 1804
Portrait of Horatio Gates by Gilbert Stuart. Horatio Gates' response to a letter from Burgoyne, which mentioned McCrea's death, was "widely reprinted".
Battles of Saratoga
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The Battles of Saratoga were fought September 19 and October 7, 1777 over the same ground by the American Continental Army and the British Army near Saratoga, New York during the American Revolutionar
Jane McCrea
…reddish". Her death, and those of others in similar raids, inspired American resistance to Burgoyne's expedition, contributing to his defeat at the battles of Saratoga. The effect expanded as reports of the incident were used as propaganda to excite Patriot sympathies later in the war, especially before the 1779…
Surrender of General Burgoyne (1821)
Portrait of Horatio Gates by Gilbert Stuart, 1794
Portrait of John Burgoyne by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1766