An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . goyne now felt that his affairs had reached a fatal crisis. TheAmericans held and strongly guarded all the posts in the rear, andhad destroyed the flotilla on Lake George ; while in front theyhad an ariDy superior to his own in number, and in such warfarenot much less efficient. A movement in either direction musttherefore be followed by a series of incessant and harassing attacks
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . goyne now felt that his affairs had reached a fatal crisis. TheAmericans held and strongly guarded all the posts in the rear, andhad destroyed the flotilla on Lake George ; while in front theyhad an ariDy superior to his own in number, and in such warfarenot much less efficient. A movement in either direction musttherefore be followed by a series of incessant and harassing attacks,destroying his army in detail. A council of war was called, and theconclusion formed, that no option was left but the deeply mortifyingone of opening a negotiation for surrender. General Gatess firstdemand was, that the whole force should ground their arms and be-come prisoners of war; but Burgoyne, with all his officers, agreedin the determination to brave every extremity rather than submit tosuch terms. Gates, feeling the importance of time, agreed, aftersome discussion, to grant the honours of war, and a free passage tcBritain, on condition of their not serving again in North America 368 CAMPAIGN OF SaBBINCBR OV B T7 B O O Y K 3 during the present contest. These conditions, so far as reiated tchiin, were honourably, and even courteously, fulfilled ; but Congresssought a pretext for evading the contract to convey the f-oops to Bri-tain. The general u^arned them, that none could be found in theirown observance of the convention, which had been strictly honour-able. Burgoyne, however, when complaining of the treatment whichhis men experienced at Boston, used the rash expression, that heconsidered the convention hereby violated ; whence they inferred,that on returning home, he would represent his government as ab-solved from the engagement against their serving in America. Theydemanded lists of the mens names, which was perfectly rea-sonable, but was considered by Burgoy
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