Battle of Saratoga Oct 17, 1777

The Turning point of the American Revolution....The British Surrendered Here on this Hill on October 17, 1777. I was wandering in the forrest and surrounding graveyards searching for the reason why I was called out to film and at the end of my travels, I came upon this Monument which I have been to many times before...as I wandered I saw the Obelisk peaking out above the tree tops and I thought...I'm not going over there...been there done that....but I went over anyway to find myself at this Monument on it's Aniversary...this The Saratoga Monument was erected to commemorate This crucial Victory at Saratoga 232 Years ago...October 17, 1777 Further reason to follow your intuitions!!!!! Burgoyne lost 1,000 men in the two battles, leaving him outnumbered by roughly 3 to 1; American losses came to about 500 killed and wounded. Burgoyne had lost several of his most effective leaders, his attempts to capture the American position had failed, and his forward line was now breached. That night he lit fires at his remaining forward positions and withdrew under the cover of darkness. On the morning of October 8, he was back in the fortified positions he had held on September 16. By October 13 he was surrounded at Saratoga, and on October 17 he surrendered his army. The remnants of his expedition retreated from Ticonderoga back to Quebec. Within days of the news of Burgoyne's surrender reaching France, King Louis XVI decided to enter into negotiations with the Americans that resulted in a Franco-American alliance and the formal French entry into the war having been providing supplies, ammunition and guns from 1776, moving the conflict onto a global stage.[73] As a consequence, Britain was forced to divert resources used to fight the war in North America to theaters in the West Indies and Europe, and rely on what turned out to be the chimera of Loyalist support in its North American operations.[74] Burgoyne's failed campaign, as may be seen by the titles of some of the books that cover it in detail, marked a major turning point in the war.[75] In recognition of his contribution to the battles at Saratoga, General Arnold had his seniority restored (he had lost it after being passed over for promotion earlier in 1777).[76] His leg wound left Arnold bedridden for five months.[77] Later, while still unfit for field service but serving as military governor of Philadelphia, Arnold entered into treasonous correspondence with the British. He changed sides in 1780 after his plot to hand over the fort at West Point was exposed, and went on to serve under William Phillips, the commander of Burgoyne's right wing, in a 1781 expedition into Virginia.[78] General Gates received a great deal of credit as the commanding general for the greatest American victory of the war to date. He may have conspired with others to replace George Washington as the commander-in-chief.[79] Instead he received the command of the main American army in the South, which he led to a disastrous defeat at the 1780 Battle of Camden, in which Gates was at the forefront of a panicked retreat.[80][81] In response to Burgoyne's surrender, Congress declared December 18, 1777 as a national day "for solemn Thanksgiving and praise" in recognition of the military success at Saratoga; it was the nation's first official observance of a holiday with that name.[8