Claim: The Boot Monument is a memorial for a battle with Great Britain.
Evidence: It commemorates Major General Benedict Arnold 's service at the Battles of Saratoga in the Continental Army , but contrives not to name him.
The Battles of Saratoga -LRB- September 19 and October 7 , 1777 -RRB- marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.