# revwar history amrev jeffkennett hawthorn clarkson frickcollection drawings

7 Feb 1778 Philadelphia, PA British General Howe was replaced by Henry Clinton as the Commander-in-Chief of North America. Howe had been passed up by Burgoyne put after the disaster at Saratoga, and George III swiftly put Clinton in charge.

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2023-02-08

8 Jan 1776 Charlestown, MA Maj Thomas Knowlton’s raid disrupts Gen John Burgoyne’s play The Blockade of Boston. Thinking it's part of the show & a satire of the rebels, the audience laughs as Knowlton’s men take several prisoners & burn several buildings.

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2023-01-09

8 Jul 1777 NYC Gen William Howe’s army begins embarking on board the British fleet for a long voyage to the Chesapeake Bay. This will seal Gen John Burgoyne’s fate even as his army is moving triumphantly south from Canada.

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2022-07-09

14 Jun 1775 Boston, MA. British Gen’s Howe, Burgoyne & Clinton pressured Gen Thomas Gage to push British forces onto Dorchester Hts & Roxbury to provide room for the garrison & to stage an offensive against the rebels at Cambridge.

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2022-06-15

May 1775. KGIII dispatched 3 major generals to America: William Howe, Henry Clinton & John Burgoyne. They sailed into Boston Harbor on the man-of-war Cerberus. Ironically, Cerberus was the name of the three-headed dog of Greek and Roman mythology said to guard the gates of Hell.

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2022-05-27

25 May 1775 Boston, NY. British reinforcements arrive along with Gen John Burgoyne, Henry Clinton, and William Howe. Gen Thomas Gage now has 6,500 crack regulars & a “dream team” of lieutenants. But it also signals Parliament’s lack of confidence in him.

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2022-05-25

On this day in 1777, British general John Burgoyne surrenders his army following the defeat at Saratoga. His military career in tatters, "Gentleman Johnny" will go on to become a successful London playwright.

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2021-10-17

14 Oct 1777 Under a flag of truce, British Gen John Burgoyne requests terms. American Gen Horatio Gates demands unconditional surrender but soon agrees to an armistice.

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2021-10-15

3 Oct 1777 NYC British Gen Henry Clinton marches some 4,000 men up the North (Hudson) River to Tarrytown as the start of a diversion effort to help relieve Gen John Burgoyne’s beleaguered forces near Saratoga.

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2021-10-04

23 Aug 1777 Fort Stanwix, NY British forces under Lt Col Barry St Leger panic on the arrival of Col Benedict Arnold’s relief column. They abandon the siege in a flight west, smashing the western prong of Gen Burgoyne's strategy.

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2021-08-24

still seeking attention from the shoulders of giants.
Poor and have gone and he's still with us.

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2021-08-21

14 Aug 1777 Sancoik (Van Schaik’s Mill) NY. Lt Col Friederich Baum’s Germans & Loyalists scatter a force of 300 militia. Intent on attacking any other rebels in the area, Baum requests reinforcements from British Gen John Burgoyne.

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2021-08-15

11 Aug 1777 British Gen Burgoyne dispatches a mixed brigade of Germans, Loyalists & Indians under Lt Col Friedrich Baum to seize needed supplies at Bennington VT.

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2021-08-12

8 Jul 1777 NYC Gen William Howe’s army begins embarking on board the British fleet for a long voyage to the Chesapeake Bay. This will seal Gen John Burgoyne’s fate even as his army is moving triumphantly south from Canada.

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2021-07-09

June 1777. Gen Arthur St. Clair was given command of Ft Ticonderoga. St. Clair’s 3000 men were naked, undisciplined & badly armed. St. Clair knew that a slow moving British force was on the lake. It didn’t occur to him that a large force would move slowly -- led by John Burgoyne.

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2021-06-23

Italian food illustration by John Burgoyne 🧀🥩🍞🍝

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2021-02-01

The Burial of General Simon Fraser after the Battle of Saratoga, 1777 original by John Graham. The first 2 men in the painting from left to right are Generals William Phillips & John Burgoyne. The man to the far right is Gen Friedrich Riedesel. Fraser is of course the dying man.

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2021-01-30

Get lost in the clouds of this stoic portrait, then dive into an art historical history of clouds in the collection, exclusively at https://t.co/IjPDwIjHdX.
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, General John Burgoyne, ca. 1766. Oil on canvas

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2021-01-27

''My intention is to reveal a spectacle of wood, water, light and atmosphere; to share my enthusiasm for these processes and patterns that overlay, harmonize and echo one another. Each depiction evolves on black paper using white prismacolor pencil''
by Bette Burgoyne

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2020-04-09

June 12, 1775, Gen Thomas Gage declares martial law in MA in a proclamation written by Gen John Burgoyne. It begins: “WHEREAS the infatuated multitudes, who have long suffered themselves to be conducted by certain well known Incendiaries and Traitors…” https://t.co/h4xaCf8z4q

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2019-06-12