The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-04-03
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gallanl officer yonder is Gen. Frazer.
admire him, but 1t is necessary that he
should die victory for the enemy depends
ployed corporal's guard OF riflemen, and
under the direction of Ezra Buel, of Bemis
Heights "a prototype of John Bard at Get
tysburgh,) who was Fighting the enemy
on his own hook, )" took position in hazel
copse, while Buel climbed walnut tree.
AS Frazer rode up TO the brow of the hill,
encouraging the grenadiers and Breymens
Hessians, he was fired on by the sharp
shooters, and was urged by an aid to retire.
He replied: "My duty fOrbids me to fly"
and fell pierced through the stomach by a
rifle ball. He was carried to the rear and
his wound (made by plunging shot, show
ing that Buel's aim from the tree was more
accurate than that of Murphy and his men
from the hazels) was found to be mortal
He thus was spared the modification Of de-
feat ensuing from the adoption of his coun-
sells at Ticonderoga.
The fall Of Frazer was the signal of de-
feat for Burgoyne, and in the darkness Of
the night he withdrew from the field and
on the 10th, only to find the fords held by
which he had constructed on the east side
of the Hudson, now occupied by Gen.
Stark.
The surrender was but q question of a
few days. Cut off from retreat, hemmed
in on the front by the victorious Gates and
obtaining no information from Sir Henry
Clinton on the south, Burgoyne ended his
campaign October II, by surrender of
SOL men, all that remained of the 10 900
English regulars, Hessians, Canadians,
tories and Indians with which he had left
Montreal four months previous with the
avowed purpose Of drowning the Yankees
in New York bay. He did at last enter
Albany, but 1t was as prisoner, and as the
guest of Gen. Schuyler, whose mills he had
wantonly burned. His surrender had been
the signal for the raising of the stars and
stripes over Gates marquee for the first time
over an American army. His men had
marched within the American lines to the
tune Of Yankee Doodle Chen played for
the first time rs a national air by an Amer
lean drum corps) and stacked their arms
within the walls of old Fort Hardy, a relic
of the French and Indian war
Burgoyne returned to England in dis
grace, and was tried on charges preferred
by Gen Phillips, but was shielded by influ-
entail friends. In his 'journal," kept by
him during the campaign, published for the
first time in 1874 by his grandson, be &C.
knowledges that the cause of his defeat was
the delays ensuing on the march from Tt
conderoga to Saratoga, in which two
months were lost in vain attempt to &C
complished what might have been gained
in a week, had Phillips counsels prevailed.
Thus was Saratoga lost to the English by
the adoption by the commander of the ad-
vice of the rash and impetuous Frazer, and
the neglect of the warnings given by the
cautious and experienced Phillips; and won
to the Americans by the promotion of the
far sighted Gates over the too cautious
Schuyler. Had the contrary counsels pre-
vailed in either camp, it would doubtless
have given another phase to American his
tory, and the names of Bemis Heights and
Saratoga would have remained unknown to
the outer world.