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  American Revolutionary War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saratoga is often regarded as the turning point of the war.
One wing of his army was utterly defeated at the Battle of Kings Mountain on October 7, 1780.
Kings Mountain was noteworthy because it was not a battle between British redcoats and colonial troops; rather, it was a battle between Loyalist and Patriot militia.
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 WPI Department of Military Science - Battle of Saratoga Preliminary Study   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He thoroughly researched the Battle of Saratoga as well as the events leading up to it using primary sources such as written orders, correspondence between key figures, memoirs, journals, and written troop returns.
However, the timeframe of the battle presented in Furneaux conflicts with that of Elting and should be given less weight.
The second battle began with a similar British strategy of three columns advancing on the rebel position, but Riedesel was placed on flank security with a column moving southward through the woods west of the clearing.
www.wpi.edu /Academics/Depts/MilSci/BTSI/Saratoga/prelim.html   (1889 words)

  
 American Revolutionary War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Trumbull, an important painter of the American Revolution, witnessed the battle.]] On the night of 18 April 1775, General Gage sent 700 men to capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock (leaders of the resistance, housed in Lexington) and to seize munitions stored by the colonial militia at Concord, Massachusetts.
Later that year, in the last major encounter of the war, the Battle of Blue Licks, a party of Kentuckians was soundly defeated by a superior force of British regulars and Native Americans.
The Continental Congress dispatched the "hero of Saratoga," General Horatio Gates, to the rescue with a new army.
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 Top 20 Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
French involvement proved decisive, with a naval victory in the Chesapeake leading to the surrender of a British army at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781.
In the Battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776, the British expertly executed a surprise flanking maneuver, driving the Patriots back to the Brooklyn Heights fortifications.
Burgoyne sent 2,000 men to outflank the Patriot position, but was checked by Generals Benedict Arnold and Daniel Morgan in the first battle of Saratoga on September 19, 1777.
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 Christina Harriet Caroline Fox Acland
She married, in September, 1770, Maj. John Dyke Acland, accompanied him to America, and shared in all the vicissitudes of Burgoyne's campaign, which culminated in the surrender of the British army, 17 October, 1777.
In the second battle of Saratoga, 7 October, Maj. Acland was severely wounded and carried a prisoner within the American lines.
On the night of the 9th, accompanied by the chaplain and her maid, she set out from the British camp in a frail boat and in the midst of a driving storm to rejoin her husband.
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 Timeline, 1777   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The battle was intense with the British eventually driving the Rebels from the area.
One significant result of the battle was that it marked the beginning of a civil war within the Six Nations (Iroquois).
The skirmish known as the Battle of the Flockey is believed to be the first cavalry charge of the United States Army.
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Saratoga, Second battle of, (Bemis Heights), 7 October 1777
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