• Scenic rural landscape with green lawn, cloud-flecked blue sky, and autumn foliage punctuated by a small, deep red farmhouse and red cannon carriages.

    Saratoga

    National Historical Park New York

Saratoga Monument Virtual Tour part 6

Line drawing of second floor of Saratoga Monument
Second Floor of Saratoga Monument
 
Bronze plaque portraying British General John Burgoyne surrendering to American General Horatio Gates.
Plaque 9: The Surrender
 
Bronze plaque portraying the killing of Jane McCrea by Native Americans in the service of the British Army.
Plaque 10: The Massacre of Jane McCrea
 
Plaque showing British General Burgoyne reprimanding Native American forces under his command.

Plaque 11: General Burgoyne reprimanding the Indians for their barbarities

 
Bronze plaque depicting American General Philip Schuyler transferring command of his army to General Horatio Gates.
Plaque 12: General Schuyler turning over his command to General Gates
 
Bronze plaque portraying the wounding of American General Benedict Arnold at the Breymann Redoubt. Arnold is still on the American side in 1777.
Plaque 13: The Wounding of General Arnold in the Brunswick Redoubt
 
Bronze plaque depicting the mortal wounding of British General Simon Frasier
Plaque 14: Fall of General Fraser
 
Bronze plaque portraying Lady Harriet Ackland and a few others on a small boat, headed under a flag of truce toward American positions.
Plaque 15: The passage of Lady Harriet Ackland under a flag of truce to visit her husband, wounded and a prisoner
 
Bronze plaque depicting the burial of British General Simon Frasier in the Great Redoubt
Plaque 16: The Burial of General Fraser
 

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Did You Know?

Country house of American General Philip Schuyler

American General Philip Schuyler could be considered the "father of the American canal system". His plans for a canal system in New York met with limited use in his lifetime and later became the groundwork for the Champlain Canal, America’s first major canal.