Liberty by Don Troiani & MATTHEW SKIC

Author:Don Troiani & MATTHEW SKIC [Troiani, Don & SKIC, MATTHEW]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780811770408
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2021-05-07T00:00:00+00:00

A SOLDIER OF THE 8TH MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT, 1777

COMMANDED BY LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN Brooks, the 8th Massachusetts Regiment fought at both Freeman’s Farm and Bemus Heights. Many soldiers of the regiment wore linen hunting shirts issued for the campaign and carried newly imported French muskets. They participated in the attack on Breymann’s Redoubt on October 7.

BREYMANN’S REDOUBT, BATTLE OF SARATOGA, 1777

THE SARATOGA CAMPAIGN OF 1777 HAD ITS origins in the previous year’s campaigning in northern New York. British forces under the command of General Guy Carleton, Military Governor of Canada, were unable to pursue a successful conclusion to their advance down the Lake Champlain–Hudson River corridor. On November 4, 1776, Carleton felt compelled to complete the evacuation of Crown Point and retreated back to Canada as winter had set in.

The British plans for 1777 called for a large army of over nine thousand troops under the command Lieutenant-General John Burgoyne to advance south from Canada along the Lake Champlain–Hudson River route to Albany, New York. A secondary, diversionary force under Lieutenant Colonel Barry St. Leger, composed mainly of Loyalists, British Indian Allies, and British soldiers totaling around 1,700, would move eastward roughly at the same time, from Lake Ontario down the Mohawk River and meet Burgoyne at or near Albany. The combined forces under Burgoyne would then come under the overall command of Lieutenant-General William Howe, Commander in Chief of British forces in America, and “open the communication to New York” for unspecified operations on the lower Hudson River Valley.8 Contrary to a popular myth, Howe was never ordered north from New York City to physically meet Burgoyne and his army at Albany. As Lord Advocate Dundas, speaking before Parliament, stated: “That it was a plan of junction of co-operation, not a junction of the bodies of the armies.”9

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