Burgoyne Of Saratoga
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Author | : John Burgoyne |
Publisher | : Arthur H. Clark Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Generals |
ISBN | : 9780870624094 |
In Burgoyne and the Saratoga Campaign, Douglas R. Cubbison presents the papers that Burgoyne gathered preparatory to his appearance before Parliament, together with Cubbison's own interpretive narrative of the campaign, based on these documents and other sources. The papers, most of them published here for the first time, comprise Burgoyne's correspondence with the governor general of Canada, the British secretary of state for America, and the commander of the British army during the Saratoga expedition.
Author | : Max M. Mintz |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1992-07-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300052619 |
This work offers an account of the Saratoga campaign of 1777 through the lives of its opposing generals - John Burgoyne, the British commander, and Horatio Gates, the American (but British born) commander. The book portrays the two men and the events that developed around them. It covers both the American and British dimensions of the campaign, the only engagement in the Revolutionary War in which an all-American army captured a major British force.
Author | : Kevin J. Weddle |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2021-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199715998 |
In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the American War of Independence hung in the balance. Having successfully expelled the Americans from Canada in 1776, the British were determined to end the rebellion the following year and devised what they believed a war-winning strategy, sending General John Burgoyne south to rout the Americans and take Albany. When British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga with unexpected ease in July of 1777, it looked as if it was a matter of time before they would break the rebellion in the North. Less than three and a half months later, however, a combination of the Continental Army and Militia forces, commanded by Major General Horatio Gates and inspired by the heroics of Benedict Arnold, forced Burgoyne to surrender his entire army. The American victory stunned the world and changed the course of the war. Kevin J. Weddle offers the most authoritative history of the Battle of Saratoga to date, explaining with verve and clarity why events unfolded the way they did. In the end, British plans were undone by a combination of distance, geography, logistics, and an underestimation of American leadership and fighting ability. Taking Ticonderoga had misled Burgoyne and his army into thinking victory was assured. Saratoga, which began as a British foraging expedition, turned into a rout. The outcome forced the British to rethink their strategy, inflamed public opinion in England against the war, boosted Patriot morale, and, perhaps most critical of all, led directly to the Franco-American alliance. Weddle unravels the web of contingencies and the play of personalities that ultimately led to what one American general called "the Compleat Victory."
Author | : Gerald Howson |
Publisher | : New York : Times Books |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Generals |
ISBN | : |
"General John Burgoyne (24 February 1722 4 August 1792) was a British army officer, politician and dramatist. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War when he participated in several battles, mostly notably during the Portugal Campaign of 1762. Burgoyne is best known for his role in the American War of Independence. During the Saratoga campaign he surrendered his army of 5,000 men to the American troops on October 17, 1777. Appointed to command a force designated to capture Albany and end the rebellion, Burgoyne advanced from Canada but soon found himself surrounded and outnumbered. He fought two battles at Saratoga, but was forced to open negotiations with Horatio Gates. Although he agreed to a convention, on 17 October 1777, which would allow his troops to return home, this was subsequently revoked and his men were made prisoners. Burgoyne faced criticism when he returned to Britain, and never held another active command."--Wikipedia.
Author | : Charles Deane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Burgoyne's Invasion, 1777 |
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Author | : James D. Lunt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Burgoyne's Invasion, 1777 |
ISBN | : |
Biografi over den engelske general Burgoyne, også kaldet "Gentleman-Johnny", som fik stor betydning under Frihedskrigen i syttenhundredetallet, idet han gik over til fjenden.
Author | : Harrison Bird |
Publisher | : New York, Oxford U.P |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Burgoyne's Invasion, 1777 |
ISBN | : |
This book describes General "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne's campaign into the Champlain-Hudson Valley (to split the American colonies) and how their mistakes created the opportunity for the Americans to win.
Author | : Richard M. Ketchum |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2014-08-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1466879521 |
Historian Richard M. Ketchum's Saratoga vividly details the turning point in America's Revolutionary War. In the summer of 1777 (twelve months after the Declaration of Independence) the British launched an invasion from Canada under General John Burgoyne. It was the campaign that was supposed to the rebellion, but it resulted in a series of battles that changed America's history and that of the world. Stirring narrative history, skillfully told through the perspective of those who fought in the campaign, Saratoga brings to life as never before the inspiring story of Americans who did their utmost in what seemed a lost cause, achieving what proved to be the crucial victory of the Revolution. A New York Times Notable Book, 1997 Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Award, 1997
Author | : John Henry Brandow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Burgoyne's Invasion, 1777 |
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Author | : Robert Sobel |
Publisher | : Greenhill Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Burgoyne's Invasion, 1777 |
ISBN | : 9781853675041 |
For Want of a Nail is an alternate history classic. The outcome of one battle in the American Revolution diverges from reality, and sparks an unstoppable chain of events which affects the history of the whole North American continent. In reality, the British general John Burgoyne, heavily outnumbered by American troops, surrendered his army to General Horatio Gates at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, a major turning-point of the Revolution. Robert Sobel takes a step sideways and presents the alternative version: reinforcements arrive at Saratoga, Gates' men flee, and Burgoyne is victorious. Rather than openly allying itself with the American rebels, France withdraws its support, as does Spain, and the colonies surrender. Those former rebels who refuse to live in the Confederation of North America established by the British leave their homes and settle in what becomes the United States of Mexico. From then on the two continental nations find themselves constant rivals, locked in military, political and economic conflict. Sobel provides a detailed, intricately documented insight into two warring powers that develop in such dramatically different ways from their shared origins.