" . . . the army was posted as well as the ground would admit of, fortifying our Camp, and preparing for any attempt that the Enemy . . . might . . . make."Thomas Anbury,
ensign, 24th Regiment of Foot
Here, after a brutal 8-mile-long retreat, British soldiers strained through the night to throw up earthen defenses against an American attack. Two thousand men then lay, day and night, near trenches like the one you see here with no tents to shelter them from the cold autumn rains.
Their worn out horses and oxen lay beside them. Burgoyne's fortified camp was big - the size of 80 modern football fields. Each shovelful of dirt bought an extra measure of safety, but cost the British time they could have used to escape.
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