That a british army surrendered. We are located at one of the places at Saratoga National park where the battles were fought in 1777 during the american war for independence. Saratoga historic National Park consists of 4100 acres. It was established in 1948 as a park within the National Park service system. The british army had a plan in order to defeat the american rebellion. It was they would have an army leave canada and move south and capture the city of albany. From there that army would be able to operate either in lower new york or throughout england and attack American Forces that were fighting against them. The british set off from canada in june of 1777. They traveled hundreds of miles and eventually got here to saratoga battlefield, located 30 miles north of the city of albany. September 1777, the british army moved south in expectation of engaging the American Army commanded by Horatio Gates in battle. The two armies collided here at the battle of freemans farm. It began at
It is about an hour. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] not only grown gray, but almost blind in the service of this museum. Exciting toibly welcome joanne freeman. I have gotten to know her when we were both graduate students, if you can imagine us in our 20s. I dont know how i got in to yale, there were a lot of smart people. Was already had and shoulders above everyone else, and was already talking about this founding father guy, Alexander Hamilton. The rest of us were come on, that is boring. [laughter] but there were lots of pressing things about her work as a scholar. Her first work was published in 2001. Does this sound relevant today . A rousing discourse on the utopian republic. She has gone on to edit several works that are letters or writings of hamilton, one was named atlantic monthlys best book of 2001. I hope she t
Saratoga Historic National park consists of 3400 acres. It was established in 1948 as a park within the National Park service system. The british army had a plan in order to defeat the american rebellion. The plan was that they would have an army leave canada and move south and capture the city of albany. From there that army would be able to operate either in lower new york or throughout england throughout new england and attack American Forces that were fighting against them. The british set off from canada in june of 1777. They traveled hundreds of miles and eventually got here to saratoga battlefield, located 30 miles north of the city of albany. September 1777, the british army moved south in expectation of engaging the American Army commanded by Horatio Gates in battle. The two armies collided here at the battle of freemans farm. It was one of the longest battles of the revolutionary war. It began at about 11 30 in the morning very near to where we are standing in the world and l
You will hear a lot about its rich history. Hello, welcome to the Willard Hotel, located two blocks away from the white house. We are very fortunate to have this location. We give our thanks to captain john taylor, who was reputed to be one of for genias wealthiest plantation owners. Ofwas a friend and supporter george washington. In 1860, he built the twostory dwelling. Washington at the time was not really a city, more of a town. On a rainy day, some avenues were rivers. Debris fromdry, construction building the president s mansion was everywhere. Sts and and touri people coming to the town found sparse accommodations. As washington, d. C. Grew as the capital, so did the Willard Hotel. Everything happened within 10 blocks of the white house. If you walked out the front door , exactly one mile from here is the capital, just on the other side is the Treasury Building and the white house. You can understand how people built their homes and the center of washington became this corner, 14
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