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October 17 – American Revolution – Battle of Saratoga: British General John Burgoyne surrenders to the American troops. October 18 – Wells' Regiment of Militia is disbanded. October 20 – The 2nd Delaware General Assembly convenes succeeding the 1st. October 22 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Red Bank.
Burgoyne found himself trapped by much larger American forces with no relief, so he retreated to Saratoga (now Schuylerville) and surrendered his entire army there on October 17. His surrender, says historian Edmund Morgan , "was a great turning point of the war because it won for Americans the foreign assistance which was the last element ...
A last-minute effort to reinforce Burgoyne from New York City was made in early October, but it was too little, too late. The American victory was an enormous morale boost to the fledgling nation. More importantly, it convinced France to enter the war in alliance with the United States, openly providing money, soldiers, and munitions, as well ...
On October 9, in response to Clinton's request to Gates for militia to deal with the threat of British forces on the Hudson in the aftermath of the Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery, Gates' adjutant, James Wilkinson, wrote to Clinton that "The militia you demand were yesterday ordered down, and the Albany county [militia] will this day ...
Donald Trump spent the last few months vehemently denying he or his campaign is closely tied to the Heritage Foundation – the right-wing think tank responsible for publishing Project 2025, a ...
After resigning from the army in 1777, he pursued a career as an artist. In 1785 he began sketching out ideas for a series of large-scale paintings to commemorate the major events of the American Revolution, and in 1791 he traveled to Saratoga, New York, where he sketched the landscape of the surrender site. [2]
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