Talk:Saratoga campaign

message: I am at a loss to figure out why there are separate articles for Saratoga campaign, Battle of Saratoga, Battle of Freeman's Farm and Battle of Bemis Heights.  That is at least one too many.  I am inclined to believe that "Battle of Saratoga" is the article that should be merged/deleted, because there was no such thing as a "battle of Saratoga".  There were two actions, Freeman's Farm and Bemis Heights, eighteen days apart.  I suggest that "battle of Saratoga" be a redirect to the Saratoga campaign article, and that the Saratoga campaign article include links to the battles at Bemis Heights and Freeman's Farm. Vidor (talk) 04:01, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. Despite the common view of Saratoga as a single battle, it was certainly a campaign.--201.213.46.44 (talk) 17:23, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

text: Separate but need to be cleaned up.  A while back I was confused by the same thing and thought Saratoga Campaign and Battle should be the same.  However I'm now inclined to paring down the campaign page so that it forks to each of the individual skirmishes.  There's a whole bunch of strategy over several months in the campaign including fights at Fort Ticonderoga.   Some of these battles were more than 100 miles apart.  In American Civil War battles the format is to keep the campaigns and individual battles separate.  Americasroof (talk) 17:37, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Another option would be to retitle the "Battle of Saratoga" article as "BattleS of Saratoga", merge both the Bemis Heights and Freeman's Farm articles into that article in their entirety, and delete the latter two.  Vidor (talk) 21:45, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

text: As a matter of fact, now that I think about it, that's what I'm going to do.  Going to change the title of the "Battle of Saratoga" article right now, and merge the two separate battle articles into it at some future date. Vidor (talk) 22:11, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that's a good idea -- basically to include all the action the Saratoga National Battlefield. Americasroof (talk) 02:09, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge proposed

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thread_title: Au contraire

message: I have removed the sentence "Joseph Brant killed and tortured Indians who did not support the Crown" since the information is not only irrelevant but dubious. While there is an inline citation (Michael Logusz's With Musket and Tomahawk), this accusation is not supported in other reliable and highly-respected sources such as Isabel Kelsay's Joseph Brant: Man of Two Worlds,  Barbara Graymont's Iroquois in the American Revolution, or Alan Taylor's The Divided Ground. While I haven't yet been able to access a copy of Logusz's book, I suspect he may have been describing what Patriot propagandists were saying about Brant. Griffin's Sword (talk) 17:43, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Joseph Brant and St. Leger's Expedition