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This Month's Featured Website
Saratoga
Battlefield
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Site of the first significant American military victory during the
Revolution, the Battles of Saratoga rank among the fifteen most
decisive battles in world history. Here in 1777 American forces
met, defeated and forced a major British army to surrender, an event
which led France to recognize the independence of the United States
and enter the war as a decisive military ally of the struggling
Americans. |
This Months’s Featured Historic Site
Bennington
Battlefield State Historic Site is the location of a Revolutionary
War battle between the British forces of General John Burgoyne and
Colonel Friedrich Baum against the American forces under Brigadier
General John Stark and Colonel Seth Warner. This battle was fought
in August 1777 in a British effort to capture American storehouses
in Bennington to restock their depleting provisions. The British
forces had underestimated the strength of their enemy and most of
their men were killed or taken prisoner while the Americans sustained
smaller losses. The British surrendered on October 17, 1777, after
two unsuccessful battles in Saratoga. |
This Month’s Featured Historic Town
of the Hudson River Valley
Saratoga
Springs
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is a modern county with fairytale neighborhoods, a business-like
county that takes time to smell the flowers lining its streets,
and a growing county that doesn't lose touch with its past. Saratoga
is a developing county that doesn't let progress step on the greenery
of its extraordinary series of parks, and a thriving county that
still values the fine art of living well.
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