Burgoyne, realizing that he now has a…
August 1777 CE
Riedesel, whose forces Burgoyne had stationed at Castleton for a time while he was at Skenesboro, has observed that the area is rich in draft animals and horses, which might be seized for the army's benefit (including the mounting of Riedesel's currently unmounted dragoons).
Pursuing this idea, Burgoyne sends Colonel Friedrich Baum's regiment toward western Massachusetts and the New Hampshire Grants on August 9, along with some Brunswick dragoons.
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Arthur St. Clair
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Barry St. Leger
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Friedrich Adolf Riedesel
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Friedrich Baum
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George Washington
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Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
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Henry Clinton
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Horatio Gates
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Israel Putnam
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John Burgoyne
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Philip Schuyler
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Seth Warner
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Simon Fraser
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William Howe
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William Phillips
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Iroquois (Haudenosaunee, also known as the League of Peace and Power, Five Nations, or Six Nations)
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