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else almost dictatorial powers In
everything that might affect tho disci.
pline, provisioning, and success Of his
army.
There was need, for the year wit
messed fighting Of tremendous conse'
Quence.
Brave British Plans.
The British struck for nothing less
than complete possession Of the whole
state of New York, throughout the val.
leys of the Hudson and the Mohawk.
General Howe, who had about twenty.
thousand men in New York city, was
to move up the Hudson; General Bur.
goyne, with eight thousand men, from
Canada down Lake Champaign; Colo.
mel St. Leger, with small but sum.
cient force, down into the valley Of the
Mohawk, striking from Oswego, on
Ontario; and the colonies were to be
cut In twain, New England hopelessly
separated from her confederates, by
tho converging sweep of three armies,
aggregating more than thirty-three
thousand men.
But only the coast country, 1t turned
out, was tenable ground for British
troops.
Ticonderoga Falls.
Sir Guy Carleton had attempted
Champlain out of Canada the year be-
fore, and had gone back to Quebec
without touching Ticonderga, so dis.
concerted had he been by the price
he had had to pay for his passage up
the lake to a small force and an OK
temporized feet under Benedict Arm.
old. --r.
This time Burgoyne, with his splen.
did army, made short work of Ticon.
deroga July, IT'D, and drove Gen:
eral Schuyler and his army back to
their posts beyond the Hudson; but
the farther he got from his base upon
the lake into, the vast forests of that
wide frontier, the more certainly did
he approach disaster.
No suceor came. st. Leger was BAT.
ned, and sent in panic back the way
he had come.
Howe did not ascend the river. The
country swarmed with gathering mi
litia. They would not volunteer fo1
distant campaigns: but this invading
host. marching by their very homes
into the deep forest, reused them and
tempted them as they had been reused
at Concord, and they gathered at its
rear and upon it's TANKS as they had
run together to invest Boston.
A thousand men Burgoyne felt
obliged to leave in garrison at Ticon.
deroga; a thousand more, sent to Ben
nington to seize the stores there, were
overwhelmed and taken august 1e),
Quite twenty thousand provinciala
presently beset him. and he had but
six thousand left wherewith to save
himself.
He crossed the river, for he still
expected Howe; and there was stub.
born fighting about Saratoga (septem.
Der 10, October y. In which Arnold
once more made his name In battle
But the odds were too great; Bur
goyne's supplies we're cut oil, hia
troops beaten; there was nothing fol
it but capitulation October 17).
He had been trapped and taken by
q rising Of the country.
Washington outoenerals Howe.
Howe had not succored him. part
ly because he lacked judgment and
capacity, partly because Washington
had thwarted him at every turn. From
his position at Morristown, Washing
ton could send reinforcements to the
north or recall them at will, without
serious delay; and Howe, in his hest
tation, gave him abundant time to dc
what he would.
It was Sir Williams purpose to &C
cupy the early summer, ere Burgoynt
should need him. in an attack on Phil
adelphia. On tho H2th. Of June, ac
cordingly, he threw q force Of eighteen
thousand men into New Jersey.
But Washington foiled him at each
attempt to advance by hanging always
upon his flank In such: a position tina,
he could neither be safely ignored no,
forced to fight; and the prudent Howe
abandoning the march, withdrew once
more to New York.
British Como 70 philadsiphja,
But he did not abandon his projec,
against PhilAdelphia. r
j He deemed it the 'capital'' Of the
insurgent confederacy, and wished Il
discredit congress and win men a