Benedict Arnold had left Stillwater, New York…
August 1777 CE
He expects to recruit members of the Tryon County militia when he arrives at Fort Dayton on August 21.
Arnold can only raise about one hundred militia, as most of the militia men that had been at Oriskany are not interested in joining, so he instead resorts to subterfuge.
He stages the escape of a Loyalist captive, who persuades St. Leger that Arnold is coming with a much larger force than he actually has.
On this news, Joseph Brant and the rest of St. Leger's natives withdraw.
They take most of his remaining supplies with them, and St. Leger is forced to raise the siege and head back through Oswego to Quebec.
Arnold sends a detachment a short way after them, and turns the rest of his force east to rejoin the American forces at Saratoga.
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Arthur St. Clair
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Cornplanter
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Friedrich Adolf Riedesel
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George Washington
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Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
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Horatio Gates
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Israel Putnam
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John Burgoyne
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Joseph Brant
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Philip Schuyler
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