S03E11: 1777: The Year of the Hangman, Saratoga - a podcast by Brady J. Crytzer

By the year 1777 the British Empire was fighting a losing
battle. Sensing the rebellion in the American colonies was still a regional
flare up of hostilities, General John Burgoyne set off to slice North America
in two. In what would be called the Saratoga Campaign, 10,000 British soldiers
invaded the colony of New York from their base in Quebec and seemed all but unstoppable.
But, in a dramatic turn of fortunes the Patriot commander Horatio Gates
defeated Burgoyne and gave the fledgling revolution new life at the battles of
Saratoga that fall. The consequences would be drastic, and the small
insurrection that began in Boston would soon spread across the globe. On this
episode we discuss the 1777: The Year of the Hangman.

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