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1 “The Year of the Hangman”
Campaign Year of 1777 “The Year of the Hangman”

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3 The Three-Pronged Campaign
General John Burgoyne Col. Barry St.Leger Sir William Howe

4 The Champlain Valley Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne (B) invades the Champlain Valley His army includes Redcoats, Tory Rangers, Hessians and Native Americans

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6 Burgoyne captures Ft. Ticonderoga

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10 Philip Skene Philip Skene (B) convinces Burgoyne to go overland from Lake Champlain to the Hudson Valley

11 Phillip Schuyler General Philip Schuyler (A) uses slow down tactics and a scorched earth policy to hurt Burgoyne Takes more than two weeks to get to Hudson Valley

12 Murder of Jane McCrea

13 Battle of Bennington Burgoyne sends his Hessians to get horses and supplies at Bennington. Seth Warner (A) and John Stark (A) defeat the Hessians at the Battle of Bennington (A)

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16 Battles of Saratoga Gen. John Burgoyne vs. Gen Horatio Gates
Battles of Freeman’s Farm (A)

17 Battles of Saratoga Battle of Bemis Heights (A)
Daniel Morgan’s Riflemen Benedict Arnold’s leg

18 Daniel Morgan’s Riflemen

19 Statue to Benedict Arnold at Saratoga

20 Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga – “Turning Point of the War”

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22 Col. Barry St.Leger lays siege to Ft. Stanwix
St. Leger’s army includes Redcoats, Tory Rangers and Iroquois

23 Iroquois Confederacy Iroquois Confederacy split over who to support during the Revolution Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga and Mohawk side with the British Oneida and Tuscarora side with the Americans

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25 Ft. Stanwix Peter Gansvoort (A) and Marius Willett (A) command Ft. Stanwix

26 Battle of Oriskany

27 Nicholas Herkimer Battle of Oriskany (B) – Gen. Nicholas Herkimer (A) ambushed trying to relieve the siege – first battle that the Iroquois were involved in

28 Benedict Arnold (A) relieves the siege of Ft. Stanwix

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30 Hudson Valley Sir William Howe (B) claims he never got his orders and goes to Philadelphia Sir Henry Clinton (B) moves a British army up the Hudson

31 Sir Henry Clinton Breaks through a chain the Americans have across the river at West Point Burns Kingston, the rebel capital, when he hears that Burgoyne surrendered

32 What happened to Sir William Howe?

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34 Howe decides to take Philadelphia

35 Battle of Brandywine

36 Battle of Germantown

37 Howe captures Philadelphia

38 French Enter the War Benjamin Franklin has been in Paris trying to convince the French to join the war American victory at Saratoga and the way Washington’s army fought around Philadelphia convinces the French to join American Revolution becomes a World War

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