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	The Patriot Resource: John Burgoyne
		John Burgoyne was born on February 24, 1722.
		Burgoyne was present at the attacks on Cherbourg and St. Malo in 1758 and in 1759, he received his first command.
		Burgoyne was elected to Parliament in 1762 and also saw action in Spain in the French and Indian War that same year.
	www.patriotresource.com /people/burgoyne/summary.html (587 words)

	LIBERTY! . Chronicle of the Revolution . Saratoga 1777 \| PBS
		Burgoyne's cumbersome retinue, which included 30 carts of Burgoyne's personal possessions, and several cases of champagne, was stymied by the dense New York forests.
		By the time Burgoyne reached Freeman's Farm near Saratoga, American patriots were less cowed by Burgoyne's haughty pronouncements demanding their surrender, than they were of general fears of having an invading army in the neighborhood.
		In fact, the American militia had been fully alerted to Burgoyne's presence, and, as one observer put it, "were out in droves." By the time the two battles of Saratoga were fought, American forces led by Gates and his able field general, Benedict Arnold, outnumbered Burgoyne and his army by nearly 2 to 1.
	www.pbs.org /ktca/liberty/chronicle_saratoga1777.html (426 words)

	The Avalon Project : Articles of Convention Between Lieutenant-General Burgoyne and Major General Gates; October 16, ...
		The troops under Lieutenant-general Burgoyne, to march out of their camp with the honours of war, and the artillery of the entrenchments, to the verge of the river where the old fort stood, where the arms and artillery are to be left; the arms to be piled by word of command from their own officers.
		The army under Lieutenant-general Burgoyne, to march to Massachusetts Bay, by the easiest, most expeditious, and convenient route; and to be quartered in, near, or as covenient as possible to Boston, that the march of the troops may not be delayed, when transports arrive to receive them.
		All corps whatever, of General Burgoyne's army, whether composed of sailors, batteaumen, artificers, drivers, independent companies, and followers of the army, of whatever country, shall be included in the fullest sense and utmost extent of the above articles, and comprehended in every respect as British subjects.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/amerrev/dipldocs/burgoyne_gates.htm (668 words)

	General Burgoyne and Col. Barry St. Leger
		General Gates, upon the reception of this communication, authorized a cessation of arms until sunset, and having already prepared a schedule of the terms upon which he was prepared to treat, forwarded them by Kingston to Burgoyne.
		General Burgoyne's army being reduced by repeated defeats, by desertion, sickness, etc., their provisions exhausted, their military horses, tents and baggage taken or destroyed, their retreat cut off, and their camp invested, they can only be allowed to surrender as prisoners of war.
		The army under Lieutenant General Burgoyne, to march to Massachusetts bay, by the easiest, most expeditious, and convenient route, and be quartered in, near, or as convenient as possible to Boston, that the march of the troops may not be delayed, when the transports shall arrive to receive them.
	www.threerivershms.com /burgoyne12.htm (4290 words)

	The Hessians - Chapter Fourteen
		Riedesel thanked Burgoyne for his declaration, which made it clear to all that he (Riedesel) had had no share in planning the movements of the army, and he called on the English officers present to bear witness to this, if ever he were called to account.
		General Burgoyne thereupon produced the draft of a capitulation, the terms of which seemed favorable, and were unanimously approved of by his officers.
		The memorandum which General Riedesel wrote and caused to be signed by his officers immediately after the surrender is a long impeachment of Burgoyne, and sets forth the evil consequences of his not consulting the writer, or of not executing the latter's plans promptly.
	www.americanrevolution.org /hess14.html (4086 words)

	Schuylerville, NY -- A Site on a Revolutionary War Road Trip
		Despite this precaution, the proud Burgoyne was force to surrender his army on October 17, 1777 in a field not far from the smoldering ruins.
		Burgoyne's forces, now down to about 6,000 men, took refuge in a fortified camp on the heights of Saratoga (today’s Schuylerville).
		By the terms of the Convention of Saratoga, Burgoyne's depleted army marched out of camp "with the Honors of War" and stacked their weapons along the west bank of the Hudson River at Fort Hardy.
	www.revolutionaryday.com /usroute9/schuylerville/default.htm (915 words)

	General Burgoyne and Col. Barry St. Leger
		Had that general, as Riedesel and Phillips advised, fallen immediately back across the Hudson and taken up his former position behind the Batten kil, not only would his communications with Lake George and Canada have been restored, but he could, at his leisure, have awaited the movements of Clinton.
		Burgoyne, however, having arrived at Dovegat two hours before daybreak on the morning of the 9th, gave the order to halt, greatly to the surprise of his whole army.
		General Fellows, who, by the orders of Gates, occupied the heights at Saratoga opposite the ford, was in an extremely critical situation.
	www.threerivershms.com /burgoyne9.htm (1433 words)

	Guards - Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne
		Burgoyne was a bon-viveur, gambler and playwright, who served in Parliament, had some successes in the army, but often disagreed with those in command of him.
		Burgoyne's point of view as the campaign progresses is expressed from dispatches to Lord George Germain, British Colonial Secretary, addresses to his army, and exchanges with friends and fellow officers.
		Maps, sketches, engravings, and contemporary portraits depict the Lake Champlain-Hudson River Valley corridor from St.-Jean's to Saratoga; General Burgoyne, individual uniformed soldiers, the Baron and Baroness von Riedesel, and the death and burial of Simon Fraser.
	footguards.tripod.com /06ARTICLES/ART21_burgoyne.htm (2488 words)

	General Burgoyne and Col. Barry St. Leger
		CONTEMPORANEOUSLY with the descent of Burgoyne upon Northern New York, Colonel Barry St. Leger, as stated in Part First, had been despatched from Montreal, by the way of the St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario, to Oswego, there to form a junction with the Indians and loyalists under Sir John Johnson and Captain Brant.
		General Schuyler, than whom there was not a truer patriot, nor a more earnest or active in the public service, was well aware of these movements.
		A brisk correspondence ensued between that officer and General Schuyler upon the subject, from which it is manifest that, to say nothing of the miserable condition of his defences, with the prospect of an invasion from the West before him, his situation was in other respects sufficiently deplorable.
	www.fortklock.com /burgoynestl.htm (6175 words)

	Bunker Hill Exhibit \| Biography \| John Burgoyne
		Promoted to major general in 1772, Burgoyne sailed to America as a reinforcement to General Gage in 1775, arriving in time to learn of the battles at Concord and Lexington.
		Burgoyne returned to North America in 1776 as second-in-command to Guy Carleton in Canada, but he again left the army in frustration.
		In 1777 Burgoyne received command of a large army in Canada and led an invasion of New York designed to isolate New England from the rest of the colonies.
	www.masshist.org /bh/burgoynebio.html (190 words)

	The American Revolution (Saratoga)
		In December General Burgoyne concerted with the British ministry a plan for the campaign of 1777.
		Burgoyne was now once again low on supplies and facing an American army that was growing in numbers.
		Under the generous terms of the Convention of Saratoga, Burgoyne was allowed to march out of camp "with the Honors of War", which included retaining his colors and the return of his men to England.
	theamericanrevolution.org /battles/bat_sara.asp (1360 words)

	Saratoga campaign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Burgoyne's invasion from Canada had two components: he would lead the main force of about 10,000 men along Lake Champlain towards Albany while a second column of about 2,000 men, led by Barry St. Leger, would move down the Mohawk River valley in a strategic diversion.
		General Horatio Gates was in Philadelphia when Congress discussed their shock at the fall of Ticonderoga, and Gates was more than willing to help assign the blame to reluctant generals.
		Burgoyne was allowed to keep his colors, and his men marched out of their camp on 17 October 1777, to surrender their arms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saratoga_campaign (3111 words)

	Boston National Historical Park - Special Events
		General Burgoyne in America, 1775-77 Upon his arrival in Boston aboard the HMS Cerberus in May of 1775 with his colleagues Generals Howe and Clinton, British General John Burgoyne purposely showed himself to be different from your average British officer and leader.
		Burgoyne (1722 - 1792) is also the British commander who would end up surrendering the entire army under his command to American forces during the Battle of Saratoga in 1777.
		His characteriztion of the flamboyant General 'Gentleman Johnny' Burgoyne that he is bringing to Bunker Hill Monument on Sunday, Oct 2 has played regularly at Saratoga National Battlefield for the past three years.
	www.nps.gov /bost/pphtml/eventdetail20020.html (285 words)

	saratoga.motive.com
		John Trumbull painted this portrait of the surrender of General Burgoyne at the Battle of Saratoga.
		In the painting, General Burgoyne surrenders his sword to General Gates, commander of the American forces at Saratoga.
		General Howe was expected to direct the third element of the attack.
	www.warfare.net (466 words)

	The Forgotten General -- Matt Hogan's column for July 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Consequently, Burgoyne lost credibility among loyalists in the area and among the population generally for his threats to unleash the Indians.
		General John Burgoyne was a vain and arrogant man. But one thing he was not was cowardly.
		Burgoyne once again dared the battlefield to rally his men, but his horse was shot out from under him and his own clothes were tattered from near-hits.
	morrock.com /hogan4th.htm (8937 words)

	John Burgoyne
		John Burgoyne, (1722–1792), British army officer and playwright, whose bold plan of invading the American colonies from Canada ended in his surrender at Saratoga, N. Born in London in 1722, Burgoyne studied at Westminster School and joined the British Army in 1740.
		In 1776, Burgoyne was named second in command to Sir Guy Carleton for an invasion of New York from Canada.
		Burgoyne died in London on Aug. 4, 1792, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
	www.americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/BURGOYNE.HTM (349 words)

	John Burgoyne
		English general and dramatist John Burgoyne entered the army at an early age.
		By Lord Derby's interest Burgoyne was then reinstated at the outbreak of the Seven Years' War, and in 1758 he became captain and lieutenant-colonel in the foot guards.
		General Burgoyne, whose wife died in June 1776 during his absence in Canada, had several natural children (born between 1782 and 1788) by Susan Caulfield, an opera singer, one of whom became Field Marshal Sir J. Burgoyne.
	www.nndb.com /people/238/000050088 (559 words)

	WPI Department of Military Science - People, Places and Terms Mentioned in Staff Rides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		American Brigandier General Heath was in charge of the Provincials during the hardest and bloody part of the attack on the British column on April 19, 1775.
		General Lee was, at the time of the Battle of Monmouth, the second in command of the Continental Army (under Gen Washington).
		General Howe's second in command of the British Light Infantry, Pigot was among the first to reach the redoubt in the final assault on the American fortifications on Breed's Hill, 17 June, 1775.
	www.wpi.edu /Academics/Depts/MilSci/BTSI/glossary.html (8995 words)

	Benedict Arnold The Traitor Who Saved America Part 5: The Battle of Saratoga
		Burgoyne, however, had let events over take this plan by encouraging his forces to pursue the retreating defenders of Ticonderoga off the beaten path into what was then a wilderness.
		Burgoyne remained at Skenesboro enjoying himself while his road was complete blissfully unaware of the snag in his plans.
		Burgoyne had not recovered from the losses of one seventh of his army at Bennington when within a week he learned St. Ledger had abandoned the field to General Arnold on August 23d at Fort Stanwick.
	www.magweb.com /sample/amr/ch28bene.htm (3398 words)

	The Battle of Saratoga
		General John Burgoyne was to attack from the Canada along Lake Champlain and Lake George toward Albany.
		General Barry St. Leger was to head eastward from Lake Erie via the Mohawk River toward Albany, and General William Howe was to come up the Hudson River toward the same convergence point.
		At the Battle of Bennington General John Stark and the Vermont militia defeated a detachment of Burgoyne’s army.
	www.sagehistory.net /revolution/topics/Saratoga.htm (1135 words)

	Surrender of General Burgoyne
		The scene of the surrender of the British General Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York, on October 17, 1777, was a turning point in the Revolutionary War that prevented the British from dividing New England from the rest of the colonies.
		The central figure is the American General Horatio Gates, who refused to take the sword offered by General Burgoyne, and, treating him as a gentleman, invites him into his tent.
		John Trumbull (1756–1843) was born in Connecticut, the son of the governor.
	www.aoc.gov /cc/art/rotunda/surrender_burgoyne.cfm (146 words)

	LIBERTY! . General John Burgoyne \| PBS
		Burgoyne returned to America to implement his plan, marching south from Canada towards New York.
		When the confident Burgoyne arrived in a settlement, he would loudly invite Americans to join the British cause.
		In addition to local resisters, the General was being slowed down by an excessive amount of baggage.
	www.pbs.org /ktca/liberty/popup_burgoyne.html (371 words)

	WPI Department of Military Science - Battle of Saratoga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Burgoyne received a dispatch from Sir Henry Clinton describing his plans to assault northward against the American forts along the river.
		Burgoyne decided to hold his position and await developments of Clinton's campaign, hoping that Gates would be forced to detach units to support the other forts.
		During the interim, Burgoyne's men were on half rations of salt pork and flour and the horses were dying of starvation.
	www.wpi.edu /Academics/Depts/MilSci/BTSI/Saratoga (1179 words)

	People of the Revolution
		At the encouragement of Washington, he again joined the army to stop the advance of General Burgoyne, Colonel Barry St. Leger, and Sir William Howe from the north.
		Burgoyne is probably best known for surrendering at Saratoga during the American Revolution.
		A parliamentary inquiry into Burgoyne's responsibility for the Saratoga defeat was inconclusive in 1779, but Burgoyne was deprived of most of his political offices.
	www.si.umich.edu /spies/people.html (3265 words)

	General Burgoyne and Col. Barry St. Leger
		General Gates was encamped on the other side of the creek at the distance of an eighth of a mile from General Burgoyne, his right wing stretched towards the plain; but he endeavored to shelter his troops as much as possible from the enemy's fire until he resolved to form the attack.
		General Nelson, at the head of the American militia, occupied the heights on the other side of the river, and engaged the attention of the left wing of the English while other American troops observed the movements of the right wing.
		The entrenchments still exist; nay, the footpath is still seen on which the adjutant of Gen. Gates proceeded to the English general with the ultimatum of the American commander; the spot on which the council of war was held by the English officers, remains unaltered.
	www.fortklock.com /burgpyneapp13b.htm (593 words)

	General John Burgoyne
		Burgoyne was sent to the colonies in 1772.
		Burgoyne sailed back to England and personally persuaded King George III to let him take command of the British troops.
		General Burgoyne had his troops invading New York from three different directions.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_35_174.html (302 words)

	General Burgoyne Log Cabin vacation rental on Lake George, NY.
		General Burgoyne Log Cabin vacation rental on Lake George, NY.
		General Burgoyne and The Paul Revere are identical.
		The first floor or patio level of the General Burgoyne cabin is Jefferson Retreat
	www.trouthouse.com /burgoyne.htm (112 words)

	Bunker Hill Exhibit \| Letter from General John Burgoyne to his Nephew Lord Stanley \| Introduction
		A playwright and gambler, John Burgoyne had entered the military at the age of 15 and served in Portugal during the Seven Year's War (1756–1763), which corresponded to the French and Indian War in America (1754–1760).
		Frustrated by his lack of authority in Boston, he left America, only to return to command an expedition from Canada in 1777, an expedition that ended in disaster with the surrender of his army at Saratoga.
		General Burgoyne's letter was published in London on November 27, 1775, with
	www.masshist.org /bh/burgoyne.html (178 words)

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