The Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga by John Trumbull, 1821
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The Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga by John Trumbull, 1821
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First Saratoga
Second Saratoga
Map courtesy of the Department of History,
United States Military Academy
Loyalism was a siren call for the British. They were constantly bending their strategy to conform to the chimera of Loyalist support that was assumed to be there but somehow never materialized. Howe’s Philadelphia campaign and Burgoyne’s invasion from Canada, as well as the British strategy in the South, were based on the assumption that large numbers of Loyalists would rise in support, if only sufficiently encouraged and protected ...