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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6CZ_bemis-heights_Stillwater-NY.html
You are on the crest of Bemis Heights at the apex of the American defense lines. Nearby were a fortified barn, batteries, infantry breastworks, hospital, headquarters and encampment sites.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6CU_prelude-to-history_Stillwater-NY.html
When news of the British invasion reached the farmers who tilled these fields, some went north to join the Crown Forces. Such a loyalist was John Freeman. On a hot summer afternoon in 1777, one of Freeman's neighbors who stayed to fight for the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6CN_burgoynes-headquarters_Stillwater-NY.html
Scaled in size according to the rank of the occupant, Crown Force officers' tents - or marquees - graced the American wilderness with fluttering pennants, elegant fringe and elaborate awnings and breezeways. The several large, colorful marquees th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6CM_main-british-encampment_Stillwater-NY.html
In marked contrast to the officers' marquees were hundreds of enlisted men's tents. The main British encampment of some 4,000 soldiers extended east of Balcarres Redoubt to beyond the crest of the rise in front of you and to your left. Markers …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6BM_the-breymann-redoubt_Stillwater-NY.html
Failing to capture the Balcarres Redoubt, the Americans surged against Crown Forces' fortifications built here. Attacking relentlessly, they overwhelmed this important defensive position just before nightfall, October 7, 1777. Never more than a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6BL_arnolds-assault_Stillwater-NY.html
While Morgan's Light Corps, the 5th and 6th Massachusetts Continentals and other American troops attacked the Breymann Redoubt from the front, the intrepid Benedict Arnold - without a command of his own - joined a handful of Americans in a daring …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6BK_the-battle-of-freemans-farm_Stillwater-NY.html
In the fields before you, the first action of the Battle of Saratoga began. Shortly after noon on September 19, American pickets posted in the Freeman House fired on advance elements of the center column of the British army. The Americans were dri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6AP_gen-henry-knox-trail_Stillwater-NY.html
Through this place passedGen. Henry Knoxin the winter of 1775-1776to deliver toGen. George Washingtonat Cambridgethe train of artilleryfrom Fort Ticonderogaused to force the BritishArmy to evacuate Boston Erected byThe State of New Yorkduring t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM698_saratoga-1777_Stillwater-NY.html
Here the first assault wasmade by the Americans onthe British line of battleOctober 7th in memory ofJohn M. Brown
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM695_unknown-american-soldiers_Stillwater-NY.html
The Unknown American Soldiers who perished in the Battles of Saratoga September 19 and October 7, 1777 and were here buried in unmarked graves helped to assure the triumph of the War of Independence, to create the Republic of the United States of …
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