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INTRODUCTION 9

PRELUDE.

I. THE INVASION OF CANADA 15

II. THE INVASION OF CANADA 19

BURGOYNE'S INVASION.

I. THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN 27

II. BURGOYNE'S ARMY 33

III. THE FALL OF TICONDEROGA 37

IV. HUBBARDTON 45

V. FACING DISASTER 56

VI. THE MARCH TO FORT EDWARD 61

VII. BEFORE BENNINGTON 68

VIII. BATTLE OF BENNINGTON 77

IX. AFTER BENNINGTON 87

X. ST. LEGER'S EXPEDITION 90

XI. OUR ARMY ADVANCES 95

XII. BATTLE OF BEMIS' HEIGHTS 101

XIII. LINCOLN'S RAID IN BURGOYNE'S REAR 113

XIV. SECOND BATTLE OF FREEMAN'S FARM 116

XV. RETREAT AND SURRENDER 126

XVI. SEVENTEENTH OF OCTOBER, 1777 137

XVII. CONSEQUENCES OF DEFEAT 143

[Illustration: MILITARY MAP, LAKE CHAMPLAIN.]

INTRODUCTION

Among the decisive events of the Revolutionary struggle, Burgoyne's
campaign deservedly holds the foremost place, as well for what it led
to, as for what it was in inception and execution--at once the most
daring, most quixotic, and most disastrous effort of the whole war.

Burgoyne was himself, in some respects, so remarkable a man that any
picture of his exploits must needs be more or less tinted with his
personality. And this was unusually picturesque and imposing. He
acquired prestige, at a time when other generals were losing it, through
his participation in Carleton's successful campaign. But Burgoyne was
something more than the professional soldier. His nature was poetic; his
temperament imaginative. He did nothing in a commonplace way. Even his
orders are far more scholarly than soldier-like. At one time he tells
his soldiers that "occasions may occur, when nor difficulty, nor labor,
nor life are to be regarded"--as if soldiers, in general, expected
anything else than to be shot at!--at another, we find him preaching