. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... soldier. Altogether, the forceunder Burgoyne was the most splendid bodyof troops Great Britain had yet assembled inAmerica. With this army Burgoyne was to 420 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. advance by way of Lake Champlain to theHudson, while a detachment under GeneralSt. Leger was to move eastward by way ofOswego and descend the Mohawk to theHudson. Having secured the Hudson, Bur-goyne was to open communication with SirHenry Clinton in New York, capture the forts
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... soldier. Altogether, the forceunder Burgoyne was the most splendid bodyof troops Great Britain had yet assembled inAmerica. With this army Burgoyne was to 420 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. advance by way of Lake Champlain to theHudson, while a detachment under GeneralSt. Leger was to move eastward by way ofOswego and descend the Mohawk to theHudson. Having secured the Hudson, Bur-goyne was to open communication with SirHenry Clinton in New York, capture the fortsin the Highlands and so cut off New Englandfrom the Middle and Southern States. To oppose his advance General Schuyler that post. Opposite Fort Ticonderoga, onthe right-hand side of the outlet of LakeGeorge, is a lofty hill known as MountDefiance. The Americans had neglected tofortify this hill, thinking it inaccessible toartillery. General Philips was of a differentopinion, and in three days of hard labor suc-ceeded in dragging his guns to the summitof Mount Defiance, from which they com-manded the forts on both sides of the lake. GENERAL BURGOYNE ADDRESSING THE INDIANS. had a weak army between Albany and LakeChamplain. General St. Clair, with a detach-ment of three thousand men held Ticonde-roga, and though he seriously feared thathis force was too weak to offer much resist-ance, trusted to the natural strength of hisposition and hoped to be able to hold Ticon-deroga until aid could reach him. On the second cf July Burgoynes armyappeared before Ticonderoga and invested St. Clair now saw that the forts were unten-able and that he must evacuate them atonce in order to save his army. Sendinghis baggage and stores in boats up the !akato Skenesborough, now Whitehall, heevacuated Fort Ticonderoga and crossedover to Fort Independence, on the oppositeside of the lake. His withdrawal was discovered before itwas completed, and the British at once I THE YEAR 1777. 421 followed in pursui
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