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| | Guards - Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne |
 | | He was born in 1722 in Sutton, in the county of Bedfordshire, baptized at St Margaret's Westminster, and educated at Westminster School, joining the army in 1740 at the age of 15. |
 | | A second column under General Barry St. Leger was to serve as a diversionary attack, moving eastward from Canada along the Mohawk River. |
 | | However, the roads were no more than crude trails, and the undergrowth was dense, so the going was rough and slow, and he was impeded by Gates' men who felled huge trees across the creeks and brooks, damming them and flooding the low-lying ground, and destroying crops in his path. |
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