SARATOGA CAMPAIGN
JUNE 21 - OCTOBER 17, 1777

The Saratoga Campaign was part of the American Revolution. Historians rate it as the decisive battles of the war, because they marked the turning point of the Revolution in favor of the Americans.

THE GENERAL IDEA BEHIND THE SARATOGA CAMPAIGN
---> Quoted from the Columbia Encyclopedia:
Lord George Germain and John Burgoyne were the chief authors of a plan to end the American Revolution by splitting the colonies along the Hudson River.

Burgoyne was to advance south from Canada along Lake Champlain to Albany, where he would join Sir William Howe, advancing north from New York City up the Hudson, and Barry St. Leger, coming east along the Mohawk River.

Howe, however, became engaged in the campaign against Philadelphia, and Sir Henry Clinton, who assumed the command in New York City, never reached Albany.
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The Battles of Saratoga were:

First Battle of Saratoga - September 19, 1777
Also called the First Battle of Freeman's Farm.

Second Battle of Saratoga - October 7, 1777
Also called the Second Battle of Freeman's Farm or the Battle of Bemis Heights.

1777 Battle of Saratoga