THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (Complete Edition In 2 Volumes). Fiske John

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СКАЧАТЬ plan was unsound

       Germain’s fatal error

       Too many unknown quantities

       Danger from New England ignored

       The dispatch that was never sent

       Burgoyne advances upon Ticonderoga

       Phillips seizes Mount Defiance

       St. Clair abandons Ticonderoga, July 5, 1777

       Battle of Hubbardton, July 7

       One swallow does not make a summer

       The king’s glee

       Wrath of John Adams

       Gates chiefly to blame

       Burgoyne’s difficulties begin

       Schuyler wisely evacuates Fort Edward

       Enemies gathering in Burgoyne’s rear

       Use of Indian auxiliaries

       Burgoyne’s address to the chiefs

       It is ridiculed by Burke

       The story of Jane McCrea

       The Indians desert Burgoyne

       Importance of Bennington; Burgoyne sends a German force against it

       Stark prepares to receive the Germans

       Battle of Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777

       The invading force annihilated

       Effect of the news; Burgoyne’s enemies multiply

       Advance of St. Leger upon Fort Stanwix

       Herkimer marches against him

       Herkimer’s plan

       Failure of the plan

       Thayendanegea prepares an ambuscade

       Battle of Oriskany, Aug. 6, 1777

       Retreat of the Tories

       Colonel Willett’s sortie

       Death of Herkimer

       Arnold arrives at Schuyler’s camp

       And volunteers to relieve Fort Stanwix

       Yan Yost Cuyler

       Flight of St. Leger, Aug. 22

       Burgoyne’s dangerous situation

       Schuyler superseded by Gates, Aug. 2.

       Position of the two armies, Aug. 19-Sept. 12

       CHAPTER VII SARATOGA

       Why Howe went to Chesapeake Bay

       Charles Lee in captivity

       Treason of Charles Lee

       Folly of moving upon Philadelphia, as the “rebel capital”

       Effect of Lee’s advice

       Washington’s masterly campaign in New Jersey, June, 1777

       Uncertainty СКАЧАТЬ