REVOLUTIONARY WAR - SARATOGA]. GATES, Horatio (1728 - 1806), General ,a Continental Army . Autograph endorsement signed ("Horatio Gates"), addressed to unidentified correspondent, 4-lines, along bottom portion of a copy of Benjamin Lincoln's letter to Gates, Pawlet, 14 September 1777. 3 pages, folio .
REVOLUTIONARY WAR - SARATOGA]. GATES, Horatio (1728 - 1806), General ,a Continental Army . Autograph endorsement signed ("Horatio Gates"), addressed to unidentified correspondent, 4-lines, along bottom portion of a copy of Benjamin Lincoln's letter to Gates, Pawlet, 14 September 1777. 3 pages, folio . "THE GREAT BUSINESS AT HAND"-- FIVE DAYS BEFORE THE START OF THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA, GATES RECEIVES CRUCIAL INTELLIGENCE Gates encloses for Governor Clinton a transcription of Benjamin Lincoln's latest dispatch, at the bottom of which Gates appends this note: "To inform your Excellency more particularly with the State of Affairs in this department, I send you the Above Copy of General Lincoln's last letter to me; sincerely wishing a prosperous issue to the Great Business at Hand..." Lincoln had told Gates about "the enemy's movement" and thinks "it is most probable their design is on your post." He went on to comment on "the weak state of Ticonderoga" and the large number of Continental prisoners being held at Lake George landing, where there was also "a large Magazine of stores" and only a scant guard protecting it. Lincoln reports sending detachments to both Lake George and Mount Independence, the latter with the intention of threatening Fort Ticonderoga. He also sent detachments of Continentals against Skeensboro, Fort Anne and Fort Edward--crucial links in Burgoyne's supply chain. Burgoyne was trying to carry out his part of the three-pronged attack that was supposed to end with Howe and Barry St. Leger joining forces with him at Albany. But with St. Leger turned back at Fort Stanwix, and Howe turning his attention southward to Philadelphia, Burgoyne was on his own. He had no idea where the Americans were (Bemis Heights). Lincoln's letter, on the other hand, shows that Gates received excellent intelligence about British movements. Only when Burgoyne heard the reveille drums from the American camp on the morning of 16 September did he finally discern his opponent's location and make ready for battle on 19 September. Provenance: See note preceding 316.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR - SARATOGA]. GATES, Horatio (1728 - 1806), General ,a Continental Army . Autograph endorsement signed ("Horatio Gates"), addressed to unidentified correspondent, 4-lines, along bottom portion of a copy of Benjamin Lincoln's letter to Gates, Pawlet, 14 September 1777. 3 pages, folio .
REVOLUTIONARY WAR - SARATOGA]. GATES, Horatio (1728 - 1806), General ,a Continental Army . Autograph endorsement signed ("Horatio Gates"), addressed to unidentified correspondent, 4-lines, along bottom portion of a copy of Benjamin Lincoln's letter to Gates, Pawlet, 14 September 1777. 3 pages, folio . "THE GREAT BUSINESS AT HAND"-- FIVE DAYS BEFORE THE START OF THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA, GATES RECEIVES CRUCIAL INTELLIGENCE Gates encloses for Governor Clinton a transcription of Benjamin Lincoln's latest dispatch, at the bottom of which Gates appends this note: "To inform your Excellency more particularly with the State of Affairs in this department, I send you the Above Copy of General Lincoln's last letter to me; sincerely wishing a prosperous issue to the Great Business at Hand..." Lincoln had told Gates about "the enemy's movement" and thinks "it is most probable their design is on your post." He went on to comment on "the weak state of Ticonderoga" and the large number of Continental prisoners being held at Lake George landing, where there was also "a large Magazine of stores" and only a scant guard protecting it. Lincoln reports sending detachments to both Lake George and Mount Independence, the latter with the intention of threatening Fort Ticonderoga. He also sent detachments of Continentals against Skeensboro, Fort Anne and Fort Edward--crucial links in Burgoyne's supply chain. Burgoyne was trying to carry out his part of the three-pronged attack that was supposed to end with Howe and Barry St. Leger joining forces with him at Albany. But with St. Leger turned back at Fort Stanwix, and Howe turning his attention southward to Philadelphia, Burgoyne was on his own. He had no idea where the Americans were (Bemis Heights). Lincoln's letter, on the other hand, shows that Gates received excellent intelligence about British movements. Only when Burgoyne heard the reveille drums from the American camp on the morning of 16 September did he finally discern his opponent's location and make ready for battle on 19 September. Provenance: See note preceding 316.
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