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SARATOGA

17th OCT 1777

At Saratoga, Kosciuszko designs and builds a series of fortifications and strategically positions cannons above the Hudson River at Bemis Heights. The British are defeated and Saratoga becomes the turning point in the American Revolution.

In a conversation with the surgeon Benjamin Rush, General Horatio Gates is quoted as saying “ Let us be honest. In war, as in medicine, natural causes not under our control, do much. In the present case, the great tacticians of the campaign were hills and forests, which a young Polish engineer was skillful enough to select for my encampment.”

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