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Identifier: historictownsofm02powe (find matches)
Title: Historic towns of the middle states
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Powell, Lyman P. (Lyman Pierson), b. 1866, ed
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Middle Atlantic States Middle Atlantic States -- History
Publisher: New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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CONGRESS SPRING, 1898. Finally, driven to the last extremity, withthe Americans on the north, where Stark hadseized Fort Edward, to the east, where Fellowsheld the river bank, and to the south, whereGates had thrown his victorious army, Bur-goyne sent in his terms of surrender. Almoston the site of old Fort Hardy, his brave butunfortunate troops laid down their arms, andnear the site of the old Schu\lcr mansion.
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SIGN PUTNAM AND THE WOLF ON PUTNAMS TAVERN, SARATOGA SPRINGS. ^ ORIGINAL SIGN IN GRAND UNION HOTEL, SARATOGA SPhlNGS, N. Y. 68 Saratoga which they had so recently burned, Burgoynesurrendered his sword to General Gates.Along the road, just across the Fishkill, theAmerican army stretched in two lines, betweenwhich the disarmed prisoners were marched tothe shrill notes of the fife and the measuredbeat of the drum, to the tune of YankeeDoodle, played for the first time as a nationalair. General Schuyler, the hospitable and mag-nanimous, was on the ground. Neither theslight he had received from Congress nor theinjuries inflicted on him by the British couldquench his generous nature. He rejoicedwith his victorious countrymen, he sympathizedwith the fallen enemy, he protected and caredfor the helpless women. During the summer of 1777 he had cut aroad from his farm at old Saratoga throughthe wilderness to the High Rock Spring,already famous for its medicinal properties.He built a small frame

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