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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (12864)9/27/1998 9:29:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
<<Benedict Arnold was the hero of Saratoga>>

Not entirely. The British plan at Saratoga was for General Burgoyne to march west from Boston and rendezvous with General Gates, who was to bring his troops north from New York. In a rather stellar example of the inefficiency that plagued the aristocrat-ridden British bureaucracy, the orders were never sent to Gates. Burgoyne moved, Gates didn't; Burgoyne's forces were outnumbered and in hostile country and had very little chance.

The real hero of the American revolution was British ineptitude, and the fact that many of the competent people in the British armed forces had no interest in fighting the colonists. Barbara Tuchman's "The March of Folly" has a superb essay on the subject.

Steve
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