Saratoga campaign
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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
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
Battle of Bennington
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The Battle of Bennington was a battle of the American Revolutionary War, part of the Saratoga campaign, that took place on August 16, 1777, on the John Green farm in Walloomsac, New York, about 10 mil
Saratoga campaign
…to Saratoga. He initially skirmished there with the Patriot defenders with mixed results. The turning point of the campaign happened in August at the Battle of Bennington when militia forces from Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts defeated, killed, and captured around 1,000 Brunswick–Lüneburg and Hessian troops…
2004 painting of the battle
General John Stark, by Ulysses Dow Tenney
c. 1900 illustration of the battle
The Bennington Battle Monument in Bennington, Vermont