The British, led by Gen. Burgoyne tried to defeat the Americans by attempting to regain control over the 13 colonies, led by General Horatio Gates in 1776. This was a horrible battle that led to the loss of many lives, and was very bloody. By the next year, the British were starting to realize that they had a fight on their hands, and it wasn’t going to be as easy as they thought, to win. To stop the army from advancing their way from Montreal to Albany, Gen. Phillip Schuyler commanded his army of 4,500 men to destroy bridges and cut down trees, in order to make it hard for the British to advance. Burgoyne was tough though, he continued to advance his men. After the attack on Fort Stanwix, Benedict Arnold uses a new tactic of spreading rumors to scare away the Indians- and it worked.

Bemis Heights offered high plateaus that overlooked the Hudson River, which gave Gates and the Americans, an advantage over Burgoyne and his army. The Americans made trenches and wooden barricades, and ambushed the British. However, it was not as successful as they had hoped because they ended up face-to-face with thousands of British and were severely outnumbered. To get out of this precarious situation, Morgan, …show more content…
It is then that the Americans find themselves in a critical place- they have run low on ammunition. They ended up using the lead from windows in houses, to make new bullets. Burgoyne is also realizing that his supplies are dangerously low, and has his men fashion redoubt barricades in order to act as a defense mechanism. During this same time, more men joined the Americans and there ended up being 12,000 men which was double the size of Burgoyne’s army. Burgoyne made a critical mistake and sent his best troops into battle. The Americans charged the British, and because the British army panicked, their moral sunk, and they ended up retreating to the town of