explain the battle of saratoga.... September 19 & October 7, 1777?
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in history it was the battle american beat the british and after that battle they convince the french to go on their side and after the french became allies with US so did the spanish, so it was a battle that america won and convinced other countries to be in their army.
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In 1759, Fort Carillon was captured by General Jeffery Amhurst and then renamed Fort Ticonderoga. On May 10, 1775, at the start of the Revolutionary War, Ethan Allen, an American Revolutionary soldier, led his Green Mountain Boys in an attack to overtake the fort. These soldiers from Vermont seized Fort Ticonderoga and all of its valuable artillery stores without a struggle.\n\nLater, in 1777, the American garrison was forced to leave the fort by British General Burgoyne and his men. The British abandoned it and burned the buildings.
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multiple years, you mean the american revolution\n\n1775-1783
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Yes, I knew that. It's one of a number of incidents which imply that the American forces were, then as now, a rag-bag of ill-disciplined, over-aggressive peasants. They could never have defeated the British Army left to themselves. \n\nIn the Lexington incident, a band of these armed peasants surrendered, and in accordance with the rules of war the British ceased firing and sent two officers to collect their weapons. These officers were unarmed, as the peasants well knew. The peasants refused to hand over their weapons to the officers. They fired on the officers and killed them. \n\nThe Lexington Incident was in the minds of the writers of the Constitution when they referred to "militia" (not "army," notice) and the "right to bear arms." In reality Lexington was no glamorous victory. It was a disgraceful incident showing the Americans' contempt for the rules and rights of war. Nothing changes, does it?\n\nYou are probably aware that the Americans never defeated the British. The British were defeated by a French contingent, who then asked George Washington to take the surrender. The reason they asked Washington to take the surrender was to increase the humiliation of the British soldiery, for Washington's incompetence, rashness and stupidity were all legendary. He could never have defeated the British army, or any other, without the aid of properly trained and equipped foreign troops led by competent generals. France, seeing an opportunity, sent boat-loads of trained soldiers to assist the poor man.\n\nIt's a great shame really. North America could have been quite a decent place to live if it hadn't been for the French interfering.
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Key Event: America Signs Treaty with Tripoli.\n\nSome more Key Events in President George Washington's Administration\n\n• Precedents---Washington established two main precedents: a cabinet and the two-year term.\n• Whiskey Rebellion, 1794---Washington ordered 15,000 troops to Pennsylvania and crushed the first challenge to federal authority.\n• Farewell Address, 1796---Washington warned against the evils of political parties and "tangling alliances" abroad. \n\n\nOn April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. "As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent," he wrote James Madison, "it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles." \n\nBorn in 1732 into a Virginia planter family, he learned the morals, manners, and body of knowledge requisite for an 18th century Virginia gentleman. \n\nHe pursued two intertwined interests: military arts and western expansion. At 16 he helped survey Shenandoah lands for Thomas, Lord Fairfax. Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War. The next year, as an aide to Gen. Edward Braddock, he escaped injury although four bullets ripped his coat and two horses were shot from under him. \n\n   \n From 1759 to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Washington managed his lands around Mount Vernon and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. Married to a widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, he devoted himself to a busy and happy life. But like his fellow planters, Washington felt himself exploited by British merchants and hampered by British regulations. As the quarrel with the mother country grew acute, he moderately but firmly voiced his resistance to the restrictions. \n\nWhen the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in May 1775, Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. On July 3, 1775, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, he took command of his ill-trained troops and embarked upon a war that was to last six grueling years. \n\nHe realized early that the best strategy was to harass the British. He reported to Congress, "we should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn." Ensuing battles saw him fall back slowly, then strike unexpectedly. Finally in 1781 with the aid of French allies--he forced the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. \n\nWashington longed to retire to his fields at Mount Vernon. But he soon realized that the Nation under its Articles of Confederation was not functioning well, so he became a prime mover in the steps leading to the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. When the new Constitution was ratified, the Electoral College unanimously elected Washington President \n\nHe did not infringe upon the policy making powers that he felt the Constitution gave Congress. But the determination of foreign policy became preponderantly a Presidential concern. When the French Revolution led to a major war between France and England, Washington refused to accept entirely the recommendations of either his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was pro-French, or his Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who was pro-British. Rather, he insisted upon a neutral course until the United States could grow stronger. \n\nTo his disappointment, two parties were developing by the end of his first term. Wearied of politics, feeling old, he retired at the end of his second. In his Farewell Address, he urged his countrymen to forswear excessive party spirit and geographical distinctions. In foreign affairs, he warned against long-term alliances. \n\nWashington enjoyed less than three years of retir
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1) http://timelines.ws/1780_1789.HTML, 2)\nhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/984708/posts.\nThe 2nd site seems like the best one.
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The American victory at Saratoga was an extremely important one. It ended the British plan to separate New England from the other colonies. It also showed European nations that the new country might really be able to win its revolutionary war. This was something that France, especially, had wanted ever since being defeated by the British earlier in the French and Indian War. \n\nThe French government had been supplying the Americans secretly through the work of America's minister to France, Benjamin Franklin. Franklin was popular with the French people and with French government officials. He helped gain French sympathy for the American cause. \n\nAfter the American victory at Saratoga, the French decided to enter the war on the American side. The government recognized American independence. The two nations signed military and political treaties. France and Britain were at war once again. The British immediately sent a message to America's Continental Congress. They offered to change everything so relations would be as they had been in 1773. The Americans rejected the offer. The war would be fought to the end. \n\nIn 1779 Spain entered the war against the British. And the next year, the British were also fighting the Dutch to stop their trade with America. The French sent gunpowder, soldiers, officers, and ships to the Americans. However, neither side made much progress in the war for the next two years.
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1381 - King Richard II of England meets the leaders of Peasants' Revolt. \n1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Naseby – 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers. \n1648 - Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony. \n1775 - American Revolutionary War: The United States Army is established by the Continental Congress. \n1777 - Stars and Stripes adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States. \n1789 - Mutiny on the Bounty: HMAV Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 4,000 mile journey in an open boat. \n1789 - Whisky distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky. \n1800 - Napoleon Bonaparte's French Army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy. \n1822 - Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables." \n1839 - The village of Henley, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first Regatta. \n1846 - Bear Flag Revolt begins - Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic. \n1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Second Winchester – A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia. \n1872 - Trade unions are legalised in Canada. \n1900 - Hawaii becomes a United States territory. \n1900 - The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy. \n1905 - Battleship Potemkin uprising: Sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war. (See also Eisenstein's classic film on the subject, The Battleship Potemkin). \n1907 - Norway adopts female suffrage. \n1908 - Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing the building of another four major warships. \n1919 - John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight. \n1937 - Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday. \n1938- Action Comics issues the first Superman comic. \n1940 - World War II: Paris falls under German occupation. \n1940 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law which aims to increase the United States Navy's tonnage by 11%. \n1940 - A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp. \n1941 - Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians begun. \n1942 - Anne Frank begins to keep a diary. \n1951 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau. \n1952 - The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus. \n1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" to the United States' Pledge of Allegiance. \n1955 - Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. \n1959 - A group of left-leaning Dominican exiles in Cuba landed in the Dominican Republic with the intent of assassinating Trujillo. They would later be known as the J14 or "Catorce de Junio" (14th of June) group. \n1962 - Anna Slesersby becomes the first victim of Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler. \n1962 - The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency. \n1964 - In Pretoria, South Africa, black leader Nelson Mandela is among eight activists to be sentenced to life imprisonment for acts of sabotage. Mandela is sent to the notorious Robben Island - 7 miles
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http://www.answers.com/topic/battle-of-saratoga\n\nThe Battle of Saratoga is often called the turning point of the war, because it increased the confidence of the French government in the American forces; France began sending aid the next year. \n\nMuch more here........................
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It was part of a much bigger war fought around the world between the French and British--the Seven Years War.  In the French-Indian War, it was Brits/Colonials/Indians vs. French/other Indians.  The Brits won.
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Visit the following sites:\n\nAmerican Generals of the Revolution - \nhttp://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/GENERALS.HTM\n\nBritish Generals of the Revolution - \nhttp://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/BRITGEN.HTM
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it probably relates to the greek horse which was a gift to the city of troy . . \n\nsolidiers were hidden in the horse and let the Greeks into the castle during the night, and the greeks eventually won the war.
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1775-1783\n\nended with the treaty of paris
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Back then, water travel was the normal thing.  So Washington fought lots of battles on rivers.  The most famous was the Battle of Trenton, when Washington snuck his troops across the Delaware River from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, and surprised the Hessian troops in Trenton.  They were half-drunk from Christmas celebrations.  There is a famous painting called "Washington Crossing the Delaware."\n\nAnother big battle on a river was the battle of Washington Heights (NY).  Early in the Revolution, the British nearly captured both Washington and mot of his army in a battle in New York City. Washington managed to escape.\n\nThere are lots of others.
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The American Continental army starts to fight for the redress of Britain(the redcoats not all coats were red there were green coats too). After repeated attempts (The Declaration of Independence)  America and Britain finally came to a final disagreement at the battle of Bunker Hill and the Olive Branch Petition. the key battle in the war was the Battle of Saratoga were the Americans(Continental army) convinced the French to help them. Basically America won (whoo!!) and became "independent" from Britain(the redcoats.) \nBasically RED GUYS vs. BLUE GUYS. BLUE GUYS Win America is an independent nation.\n\nLearn more take some quizzes in the website below.
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Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts\nDate: April 19, 1775\n\nBunker Hill, Boston, Massachusetts\nAlso Known As: Battle of Breed's Hill\nDate: June 17, 1775\n\nQuebec, Canada\nDate: December 31, 1775\n\nMoore's Creek Bridge, North Carolina\nDate: February 27, 1776\n\nFort Sullivan, Charleston, South Carolina\nAlso Known As: 1st Battle of Charleston\nDate: June 28, 1776\n\nTrenton, New Jersey\nDate: December 26, 1776\n\nPrinceton, New Jersey\nDate: January 3, 1777\n\nSaratoga, New York\nIncludes: Fort Stanwix, Bennington, Freeman's Farm, Bemis Heights\nCampaign Dates: June 20-October 7, 1777\n\nMonck's Corner, South Carolina\nDate: April 14, 1780 Siege of Charleston, South Carolina\nAlso Known As: 2nd Battle of Charleston\nDate: April 2-May 12, 1780\n\nWaxhaws, South Carolina\nAlso Known As: Buford's Massacre\nDate: May 29, 1780\n\nCamden, South Carolina\nDate: August 16, 1780\n\nKing's Mountain, South Carolina\nDate: October 7, 1780\n\nCowpens, South Carolina\nDate: January 17, 1781\n\nGuilford Courthouse, North Carolina\nDate: March 15, 1781\n\nPensacola, West Florida\nDate: March 9-May 10, 1781\n\nYorktown, Virgina \nCampaign Date: May-October 17, 1781 \n\nEach for different reasons. Read up on why they were pivotal in their own right.
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Major General Wright of the Sixth Corps had charge of the Army of the Shenandoah for a few days in October, 1864, and Major General A. T. A. Torbert assumed the command in February, 1865, when Sheridan rejoined the Army of the Potomac with the cavalry.  Torbert was replaced in May 1865 by Major General Winfield Scott Hancock.\n\n\nGod Bless You and The Southern People.