
1777
Tipping Point at Saratoga
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Narrated by:
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Bob Souer
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By:
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Dean Snow
In the autumn of 1777, near Saratoga, New York, an inexperienced and improvised American army led by General Horatio Gates faced off against the highly trained British and German forces led by General John Burgoyne. The British strategy in confronting the Americans in upstate New York was to separate rebellious New England from the other colonies. Despite inferior organization and training, the Americans exploited access to fresh reinforcements of men and materiel and ultimately handed the British a stunning defeat.
Assimilating the archaeological remains from the battlefield along with the many letters, journals, and memoirs of the men and women in both camps, Dean Snow's 1777 provides a richly detailed narrative of the two battles fought at Saratoga over the course of 33 tense and bloody days. While the contrasting personalities of Gates and Burgoyne are well known, they are but two of the many actors who make up the larger drama of Saratoga. Snow highlights famous and obscure participants alike, from the brave but now notorious turncoat Benedict Arnold to Frederika von Riedesel, the wife of a British major general who later wrote an important eyewitness account of the battles.
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Very Good
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Saratoga
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A thorough and enlightening account of the battle
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Excellent timeline of the events of this historic battle
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Rich detail makes for a great story
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My one complaint comes from the book's beginning. It appears to me that Snow did not consult primary sources for these actions. Snow states that Schuyler was the one canceled any plans to fortify Mount Sugarloaf (later Mount Defiance), when action on fortifying Sugarloaf should have happened in 1776 when the American army's size was three times what it was in 1777. St. Clair, Ticonderoga's commander was in command for less than a month before Burgoyne arrived and had nowhere near enough men to dfend the works,let alone build more. Seth Warner may have commanded a militia brigade at Saratoga, but he had commanded one of the continental 'additional' regiments months before at Hubbardton. There he commanded his men to disperse and regather at Rutland. Andthese men were the backbone of the group that he led to bennington, and, from what I read, were the backbone of his militia brigade.
Snow points out the feud between gates and Schuyler, but only vaguely hints at the real source of the problems: the Congress. Sectional loyalty and politicking led Congress to promote the wrong generals and appoint a bevy of foreign officers ahead of desrving American officers. One such was Roche de Fermoy who commanded Fort Independence (across the narrows from Ticonderoga). When St. Clair ordered a clandestine retreat from Ticonderoga, Fermoy got drunk and set his offices on fire, thus alerting Burgoyne to the withdrawal. It is doubtful at best that the british could have caught up to the Americans without Fermoy's alerting the British. There were good foreign officers of course, but they were outnumbered by the bad ones, but the members of Congress presumed that they (foreigners and congressmen) knew better than the American officers who were actually in the field.
So I started out questioning Snow early in the book, but he really delivered after that.
most detailed account that I have seen
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Major turning point in the American Revolution.
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Very Interesting & Factual
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Excellent History
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Fascinating timeline of events leading up to and including the surrender by the British at the battles of Saratoga
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