Battlefield Preservation at Saratoga, New York

From the October 2022 American Battlefield Trust calendar.

SARATOGA, NEW YORK

26 acres saved

The American game-changing victory at Saratoga, New York, on October 7 (today), 1777, marked the end of British General John Burgoyne's efforts to control the Hudson River Valley and the beginning of a Franco-American alliance, which brought the American Revolution to a global stage.

The American Battlefield Trust, along with the Saratoga National Historical Park, has saved 26 acres at the upstate New York battlefield and continues to work with American Veteran Archaeology Recovery to coordinate archaeological endeavors in the storied terrain.

As I said before, I am very glad that the former Civil War Trust has expanded its efforts to include the two other wars fought on American soil, the American Revolution and the War of 1812.

--Cooter

 

This Month in the American Revolution: Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act and First Continental Congress, Battle of Saratoga and Surrender at Yorktown

From the American Battlefield Trust.

OCTOBER 7, 1763

**   Proclamation of 1763.  King George III banned American colonists from settling beyond the Appalachian Mountains.

OCTOBER 7-23, 1765

**  Stamp Act Congress meets in Philadelphia to discuss  the crisis.

SEPTEMBER  5 -- OCTOBER 26, 1774

**  The First Continental Congress meets at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia.

OCTOBER 7, 1777

**  Battle of Saratoga, New York, concludes with a major American victory.

OCTOBER 19, 1781

**  British General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, Virginia. 

--Cooter

Fort Stanwix, N.Y.-- Part 2

The British failure at Fort Stanwix and the battles of Oriskany, Bennington and Saratoga thwarted their coordinated effort to take the northern colonies.

Fort Stanwix was built by the British in 1758 and named for British General John Stanwix.  The British abandoned it in 1774.  In 1776, Americans occupied the fort and renamed it Fort Schuyler.

The fort underwent a 21-day siege in August 1977.

--Cooter