The Battles of the War for Independence Being the Story of the Revolutionary W
The Battles of the War for Independence Being the Story of the Revolutionary W
Holmes Prescott
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" His troops were in motion by nine o clock on the evening of the 8th. The sick and wounded he THE CAMPAIGN AT THE NORTH. M was compelled to leave behind in hospital, commend ing them by letter to the kindly consideration of General Gates, which in the event was not found want ing. The distance to be traversed was barely ten miles ; but the march was of a most laborious and painful character. Burgoyne was determined not to relinquish his artillery ; yet to convey it was a matter of extreme diff...iculty. Very few of his draught-horses remained, and the roads were heavy with rain, which now fell persistently. The guns were slowly dragged across the intervening country, and the progress of the army was retarded by this solicitude and by the necessity of protecting the boats upon the Hudson, which contained their scanty stores of provisions. The forces did not reach Saratoga until the following night. "Such was their state of fatigue, " wrote Burgoyne at a subsequent date, " that the men, for the most part, had not strength or inclination to cut wood and make fires, but rather sought sleep in their wet clothes upon the wet ground, under the continuing rain.
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