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1777: Tipping Point at Saratoga
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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 thirty-three 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.
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 thirty-three 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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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It makes one rethink the thoughts of Benedict Arnold's actions after his treatments by the country he loved . Definitely a narcissist, but there was some argument to his actions.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Why would anyone WANT to be in a War as many of these men do? Is this what humans were created for?Aside from the battle scenes briefly described by Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman or, from a distance,by John Adams, I'd had no experience of witnessing a battle in progress. Tipping Point explores this in great detail,day-by-day, at times, hour-by-hour,from the perspectives of the opposing leaders, British Burgoyne and Colonial American Gates.It is a fascinating, face-paced historical approach, with examples for people unfamiliar with military tactics,as: "The purpose of the light infantry was to support the rifleman in close action."Ebenezer Wild was my favorite, while Benedict Arnold was a revelation.Readers may well be sickened by the encouragement of Indian tortures for entertainment.An Index would be welcome.