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Title: The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians biographers and specialists; a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Larned, Josephus Nelson, 1836-1913 Smith, Donald Eugene, 1878-
Subjects: History
Publisher: Springfield, Mass. C.A. Nichols publishing company
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ke Ontario, via Fort Stanwix (Rome) and theMohawk, should join him at Albany, and GeneralHowe should proceed up the Hudson to receivethese supporting armies. The British forces thusconcentrated, and in possession of the entire Hud-son-Champlain line, could turn east or south tocrush the rebellion.—D. S. Muzzey, United Statesof America, v. i, p. 90.—Burgoyne started on thisexpedition (about June i, 1777), with a brilliantarmy of 8,000 men, partly British and partly Ger-mans, besides a large number of Canadian boat-men, laborers and skirmishers (about 4,000 Britishregulars, 3,000 German troops, and about 650Canadians and Indians). On the western shoreof Lake Champlain, near Crown Point, he metthe Six Nations in council, and after a feast anda speech, some 400 of their warriors joined thisarmy. His next step was to issue a proclamation. . . threatening with all the extremities of warall who should presume to resist his arms. Twodays after the issue of this proclamation, Burgoyne 8598
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UNITED STATES, 1777 3urgoynes Expedition UNITED STATES, 1777from Canada appeared (July i) before Ticonderoga. Thecommander of that important fort, General St.Clair, found defense impracticable and evacuatedthe place. He was vigorously pursued in his re-treat and only escaped with the loss of most ofhis baggage and stores, besides several hundredmen, in killed, wounded, and prisoners. After aseven days march, he joined Schuyler (who hadbeen placed in sole command of the AmericanNorthern Department), at Fort Edward, on theHudson. Here was assembled the whole forceof the northern army, amounting to about S,ooomen; but a considerable part were mihtia hastilycalled in; many were without arms; there wasa great deficiency of ammunition and provisions;and the whole force was quite disorganized. Theregion between Skenesborough (now Whitehall,where Burgoyne had halted) and the Hudson wasan almost unbroken wilderness. Wood Creek wasnavigable as far as Fort Anne (which the Ameri-cans had fired an

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