Still Water, New York
Still Water, New York
STILLWATER, NEW YORK. On the west bank of the Hudson, about eleven miles below Saratoga, this was the place to which General Phillip Schuyler withdrew his army before Burgoyne's offensive on 3 August 1777. He then retreated a further twelve miles south, to the mouth of the Mohawk River. After General Horatio Gates relieved Schuyler as commander of the Northern army on 19 August, Gates moved back to Stillwater on 8 September. Four days later the Northern army moved three miles north to occupy defensive positions at Bemis Heights. The decisive battles that then took place in this area on 19 September and 7 October are known variously by the names of Stillwater, Bemis Heights, Freeman's Farm, and Saratoga. Purely for the purpose of grouping the descriptions and maps of these actions, they are referred to here as the First and Second Battles of Saratoga.
SEE ALSO Saratoga, First Battle of; Saratoga, Second Battle of.
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