The Boy Scouts at the Battle of Saratoga: The Story of General Burgoyne's Defeat

by Herbert Carter

  Footnotes

  [1]Major General Philip Schuyler, at this time commander of the army of the north, with headquarters at Fort Edwards, N. Y.

  [2]Major General Arthur St. Clair, at this time commander of Fort Ticonderoga.

  [3]Also called Mount Independence and Mount Defiance.

  [4]Afterwards called Fort Schuyler. It was situated near the present city of Rome, N. Y.

  [5]Joseph Brant, a Mohawk chief, who had been educated in England. His Indian name was Thayendanegea.

  [6]Major-general Horatio Gates, he came from New England to succeed General Schuyler, but his estate was in Virginia.

  [7]A little later Captain Brant with three hundred of his warriors swept through Mohawk valley committing some of the greatest atrocities of the war.

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  THE BOY SCOUTS' FIRST CAMP FIRE; or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol. THE BOY SCOUTS IN THE BLUE RIDGE; or, Marooned Among the Moonshiners. THE BOY SCOUTS ON THE TRAIL; or, Scouting through the Big Game Country. THE BOY SCOUTS IN THE MAINE WOODS; or, The New Test for the Silver Fox Patrol. THE BOY SCOUTS THROUGH THE BIG TIMBER; or, The Search for the Lost Tenderfoot. THE BOY SCOUTS IN THE ROCKIES; or, The Secret of the Hidden Silver Mine. THE BOY SCOUTS ON STURGEON ISLAND; or, Marooned Among the Game Fish Poachers. THE BOY SCOUTS DOWN IN DIXIE; or, The Strange Secret of Alligator Swamp. THE BOY SCOUTS AT THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA. A story of Burgoyne's defeat in 1777. THE BOY SCOUTS ALONG THE SUSQUEHANNA; or, The Silver Fox Patrol Caught in a Flood. THE BOY SCOUTS ON WAR TRAILS IN BELGIUM; or, Caught Between the Hostile Armies. THE BOY SCOUTS AFOOT IN FRANCE; or, With the Red Cross Corps at the Marne.

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