General John Burgoyne's Role In The Revolutionary War

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General John Burgoyne, the captain of the enemy troops, had thought of a plan, that his army of 8,000 British troops, would march to New York Cityr, while Barry St. Lefar would move his troops east from Lake Ontario to New York City, and General Howe would move his troops to New York City as well. His plan was for them to all join forces at Albany and attempt to defeat our armies. Unfortunately, General Howe did not follow the plan, and instead he invaded the Patriot capital of Philadelphia. He succeeded in capturing it, but, he did not carry out his part in Burgoyne's plan, and decided to camp his army in the capital for the winter, instead of meeting the other Generals at Albany. Meanwhile, General Benedict Arnold kept St. Legar from making it to Albany. …show more content…
Burgoyne once again tried a dessperate attempt to attack our much larger army at Saratoga, but failed. Lacking supplies, and having bad casualties, Burgoyne surrendered. This famous surrender happened on October 17th, 1777. Some of good Generals fought in this war, even the British, but they are no mach for the Patriots. The strategy of the battle, I think was very good, if General Howe didn't want to do his own thing, it might have worked, but the British Generals really didn't work as a team. If they did, Burgoyne's plan might have worked, but there was also Genereal Arnold who stoped St. Leafr from getting to Albany. No one couldn't have stopped him from doing that, but even if they didn't had St. Legar's troops, the plan might have worked, might not. This battle, is called the Turning Point for the Americans, because of this great gain. General Burgoyne was famous, but now not so much because he has surrenedered to the Americans. The Saratoga Battle, is also the Turning Point in the War, because it made the French realize that we would win, and they became allies with us and sent us supplies and money for the
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