The Boy Scouts at the Battle of Saratoga: The Story of General Burgoyne's Defeat

by active 1909-1917 Herbert Carter

Footnotes

[1]Major General Philip Schuyler, at this time commander of the army of the north, with headquarters at Fort Edwards, N. Y.

[2]Major General Arthur St. Clair, at this time commander of Fort Ticonderoga.

[3]Also called Mount Independence and Mount Defiance.

[4]Afterwards called Fort Schuyler. It was situated near the present city of Rome, N. Y.

[5]Joseph Brant, a Mohawk chief, who had been educated in England. His Indian name was Thayendanegea.

[6]Major-general Horatio Gates, he came from New England to succeed General Schuyler, but his estate was in Virginia.

[7]A little later Captain Brant with three hundred of his warriors swept through Mohawk valley committing some of the greatest atrocities of the war.