ISBN10: 1932714448, ISBN13: 9781932714449, [publisher: Savas Beatie] Hardcover Book club edition. Multiple chips, tears, and creases to jacket. 2008 Hard Cover. xxviii, 483 pp. "1777 June 30 - July 7: Fort Ticonderoga falls to a powerful advancing British army. September 11: General Washington and his Patriot army suffer a disastrous defeat at Brandywine, exposing the Colonial capital of Philadelphia to capture. September 12: John Burgoyne's invading British army confronts Horatio Gates' Patriots near Saratoga in upstate New York. The months-long Saratoga campaign was one of the most important military undertakings of the American Revolution, and John Luzader's impressive Saratoga: A Military History of the Decisive Campaign of the American Revolution is the first all-encompassing objective account of these pivotal months in American history. British General John Burgoyne assembled his command at St. Johns (Canada) in June 1777, an army consisting of numerous warships, a massive artillery train, and 7,800 men including two large divisions of rested veteran British Regulars. Burgoyne intended to capture Albany, New York, wrest control of the vital Hudson River Valley from the colonists, carry a brutal war into the American interior, secure the Champlain-Hudson country, and make troops available for Sir William Howe's 1778 campaign. Initial colonial opposition was paltry by comparison: widely separated fixed positions, small garrisons and ...
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