memoir · by a contemporary

Letters and memoirs relating to the war of American independence, and the capture of the German troops at Saratoga

Riedesel, Friederike Charlotte Luise, Freifrau von (1746–1808), 1827

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19 September and 7 October 1777

Battles of Saratoga

AT SARATOGA.
AT SARATOGA.

LETTER XXV.
When the provisions and all other necessaries were ready, the army set out on its march, on the 11th of September. On the 13th, it had com- pletely passed the Hudson, and on the next day it encamped on the heights of Saratoga. On the 15th it marched to those of Dovogat, and on the LO*J 7/0 ^^^^ arrived at Sword's house. All these marches J were very fatiguing, for it was necessary to repair

LETTER XXV.
The Memoir from which the preceding account is extracted, was dated from Stillwater, on the next day after the surrender at Saratoga; that is, the 18th of October, and signed and certified by all the officers who had commanded the several Ger- man regiments and battalions. It may be added, that after the captive army had reached Cambridge, near Boston, the American Congress refused to ratify that article of the capitulation by which it was stipulated that these troops should be shipped from Boston for England : and that they were con- sequently obliged, contrary to the treaty, to re- main in America as prisoners of war.

LETTER XXV.
In battle, as long as victory was on our side, the savages behaved bravely ; but, during retreats, as, for instance, upon that previous to the surrender at Saratoga, I saw them run and conceal them- selves ; which, however, may be partly ascribed to

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