. From trail to railway through the Appalachians . but it was animportant place, for it was the key to the Hudsonvalley. The British generals decided to send one armyup the Hudson to destroy the forts and beat back thecolonists. This army was under General Howe. Anotherarmy, commanded by General Burgoyne, was to comefrom the St. Lawrence up lake Champlain and throughthe woods by Fort Edward to Albany. Burgoyne was abrave officer, but he was conceited, and he felt too surethat he could do his part easily. He was confident thatwhen he marched through the country many colonistswould run to place
. From trail to railway through the Appalachians . but it was animportant place, for it was the key to the Hudsonvalley. The British generals decided to send one armyup the Hudson to destroy the forts and beat back thecolonists. This army was under General Howe. Anotherarmy, commanded by General Burgoyne, was to comefrom the St. Lawrence up lake Champlain and throughthe woods by Fort Edward to Albany. Burgoyne was abrave officer, but he was conceited, and he felt too surethat he could do his part easily. He was confident thatwhen he marched through the country many colonistswould run to place themselves under the English a few weeks be learned that these backwoods Amer-icans were quite ready to meet and give battle to the ORISKANY, A BATTLE OF THE REVOLUTIOxN 33 combined forces of the British regulars, the hired Ger-man soldiers, and the Indians with whom they were in league. There was yet a third division in this campaign. ABritish force under General St. Leger had come up theSt. Lawrence and lake Ontario to Oswego. St. Leger. Fig. it. General Nicholas Herkimer directing theBattle of Oriskany also had with him many Indians, and these were com-manded by Joseph Brant, a famous chief, who had hadmuch to do with white men and who was well third army was to go east, over the Oneida Carry-ing Place and down the Mohawk to Albany. By thispretty plan three armies, one from the south underHowe, one from the north under Burgoyne, and one 34 FROM TRAIL TO RAILWAY from the west under St. Leger, were to meet in would put British soldiers in every fort on theway, capture and disarm the rebels, and have all NewYork under their feet. More than this, they would thusshut off New England from Pennsylvania and Virginia,cutting the unruly colonies into two parts so that theycould not help each other. But the scheme, brilliant as it was, would not of the British armies reached Albany. Howe didnot, perhaps because he did not try. Burgoyne andSt.
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