The campaign of LieutGenJohn Burgoyne : and the expedition of LieutColBarry StLeger . ALBANY, N. Y.:JOEL MUNSELL. 1877. PART I. THE CAMPAIGN OF LIEUT. GENERAL JOHN BURGOYNE. INTRODUCTORY. iN INE miles east of Saratoga Springs, andnearly midway between the villages of Schuyler-ville and Stillwater, is the site of the Battle ofSaratoga or Bemiss heights. It is only withina comparatively short period that the historianhas been enabled to write of that event withclearness and accuracy. While authentic ma-terials on the American side are abundant, looseand hurried reports of prisoners taken at thet
The campaign of LieutGenJohn Burgoyne : and the expedition of LieutColBarry StLeger . ALBANY, N. Y.:JOEL MUNSELL. 1877. PART I. THE CAMPAIGN OF LIEUT. GENERAL JOHN BURGOYNE. INTRODUCTORY. iN INE miles east of Saratoga Springs, andnearly midway between the villages of Schuyler-ville and Stillwater, is the site of the Battle ofSaratoga or Bemiss heights. It is only withina comparatively short period that the historianhas been enabled to write of that event withclearness and accuracy. While authentic ma-terials on the American side are abundant, looseand hurried reports of prisoners taken at thetime, and the biased testimony of interestedparties, have formed, in a large measure, thebasis for a narration of the strategic movementsof the English and German troops. Fortu-nately, these impediments are now removed. There have recently appeared in Germany,two works of surpassing value, viz: a historyof the German Auxiliary Forces in the War ofNorth American Independence^ and the Memoirsand Military Journals of Major General Riedesel.^ ^ These heights were thus named from a man
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