✦ History

Part of American Revolutionary War

Battle of Saratoga

September 19 – October 17, 1777 · Saratoga

Result American victory

Decisive American victory; Burgoyne's surrender persuades France to join the war.

On the map Contemporaries

American

British

United States Continental Army under Gates
Great Britain Burgoyne's army
Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel
Brunswick-Lüneburg
Benedict Arnold field commander, Led American assaults; wounded in the leg Daniel Morgan Colonel, commanded the corps of riflemen Horatio Gates military commander Benjamin Lincoln military commander William Whipple military commander
John Burgoyne Lieutenant General, commander of the British northern army; surrendered October 17, 1777 Heinrich von Breymann military commander William Phillips military commander Friedrich Adolf Riedesel military commander Simon Fraser military commander

Strength and losses

Killed
90
Wounded
240
Killed
440
Wounded
695
Captured
6,222

Units

Continental Army Northern Army (Continental Army)
Burgoyne's army

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