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Oriskany and Bennington Turned the Tide of 1777
Read about the Saratoga campaign prelude with Herkimer at Oriskany and Stark at Bennington. Battles near Fort Schuyler and Walloomsac shifted momentum, lifting Continental morale and boosting Stark to brigadier general after Congress reversed earlier censure.
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Herkimer
Oriskany
Stark
Bennington
Johnny” Burgoyne
Saratoga
United States
Barbie
France
England
Creasy
Horatio Gates
Nicholas Herkimer
John Stark
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Whitestown
Gansevoort
Fort Schuyler
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Lincoln
Schuyler
Stillwater
Vermont
Safford
Walloomsac
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Ceeden
Burgoyne
St. Johns
Fort Ticonderoga
Arthur St. Clair
Sugar Hill
Fort Edward
Barry St. Leger
Oswego
Fort Stanwix
Rome
Marinus Willett
Peter Gansevoort
Committee of Safety
Tryon County
Henikel Herkimer
Johnson Greens
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Deve
Benedict Arnold
Basspon
Manchester
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Rogers’ Rangers
Bunker Hill
Trenton
Princeton
Congress
Continental Army
Ticonderoga
New Commonwealth
New Hampshire
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