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Campaign Year of 1777

Campaign Year of 1777. “The Year of the Hangman”. The Three-Pronged Campaign. General John Burgoyne. Col. Barry St.Leger. Sir William Howe. The Champlain Valley. Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne (B) invades the Champlain Valley

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Campaign Year of 1777

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  1. Campaign Year of 1777 “The Year of the Hangman”

  2. The Three-Pronged Campaign General John Burgoyne Col. Barry St.Leger Sir William Howe

  3. The Champlain Valley • Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne (B) invades the Champlain Valley • His army includes Redcoats, Tory Rangers, Hessians and Native Americans

  4. Burgoyne captures Ft. Ticonderoga

  5. Philip Skene • Philip Skene (B) convinces Burgoyne to go overland from Lake Champlain to the Hudson Valley

  6. Phillip Schuyler • General Philip Schuyler (A) uses slow down tactics and a scorched earth policy to hurt Burgoyne • Takes more than two weeks to get to Hudson Valley

  7. Murder of Jane McCrea

  8. Battle of Bennington • Burgoyne sends his Hessians to get horses and supplies at Bennington. • Seth Warner (A) and John Stark (A) defeat the Hessians at the Battle of Bennington (A)

  9. Battles of Saratoga • Gen. John Burgoyne vs. Gen Horatio Gates • Battles of Freeman’s Farm (A)

  10. Battles of Saratoga • Battle of Bemis Heights (A) • Daniel Morgan’s Riflemen • Benedict Arnold’s leg

  11. Daniel Morgan’s Riflemen

  12. Statue to Benedict Arnold at Saratoga

  13. Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga – “Turning Point of the War”

  14. Col. Barry St.Leger lays siege to Ft. Stanwix • St. Leger’s army includes Redcoats, Tory Rangers and Iroquois

  15. Iroquois Confederacy • Iroquois Confederacy split over who to support during the Revolution • Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga and Mohawk side with the British • Oneida and Tuscarora side with the Americans

  16. Ft. Stanwix • Peter Gansvoort (A) and Marius Willett (A) command Ft. Stanwix

  17. Battle of Oriskany

  18. Nicholas Herkimer • Battle of Oriskany (B) – Gen. Nicholas Herkimer (A) ambushed trying to relieve the siege – first battle that the Iroquois were involved in

  19. Benedict Arnold (A) relieves the siege of Ft. Stanwix

  20. Hudson Valley • Sir William Howe (B) claims he never got his orders and goes to Philadelphia • Sir Henry Clinton (B) moves a British army up the Hudson

  21. Sir Henry Clinton • Breaks through a chain the Americans have across the river at West Point • Burns Kingston, the rebel capital, when he hears that Burgoyne surrendered

  22. What happened to Sir William Howe?

  23. Howe decides to take Philadelphia

  24. Battle of Brandywine

  25. Battle of Germantown

  26. Howe captures Philadelphia

  27. French Enter the War • Benjamin Franklin has been in Paris trying to convince the French to join the war • American victory at Saratoga and the way Washington’s army fought around Philadelphia convinces the French to join • American Revolution becomes a World War

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