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is known as the “Turning Point” of the American Revolution. It was a major defeat of British forces on American soil. In the war, a series of engagements fought in New York. To split the colonies along the Hudson, the British planned a three-way advance on Albany from Canada, and from New York City along the Mohawk River ....

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.... the timid British line and gradually forced the Americans to withdraw. Shaken by this American victory, the British commander ordered his troops to lodge in the surroundings of the farm area and wait for support from Clinton, in the south. They waited for almost three weeks, but he didn’t come. By now Burgoyne’s situation was tough. He was now facing a growing American army without help from the south, and their supplies were rapidly diminishing. They grew weaker every day. Burgoyne had to choose between a ....