Battles of Saratoga

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Chris Carola, Did your ancestor fight at Saratoga? You can check. Associated Press, Oct. 21, 2010.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TRAVEL_BRIEF_SARATOGA_BATTLES_DATABASE_TRVOL?SITE=DCSAS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
("The project was made possible by the detailed records kept by many American regiments")

Note:
(a) Stillwater, New York
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stillwater,_New_York
(a town in Saratoga County, New York; During the American Revolution, residents participated in the war, and part of the Battle of Saratoga was fought in the town so that the town now refers to itself as the turning point of the American Revolution.)

(i) Town of Saratoga is immediate north, whereas City of Saratoga Springs, northwest. All in County of Saratoga.
(ii) Saratoga Springs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saratoga_Springs
(The name reflects the presence of mineral springs in the area. While the word "Saratoga" is known to be a corruption of a Native American place name, authorities disagree on what the exact word was, and hence what it meant.)
  
(b) Battles of Saratoga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Saratoga
(generally regarded as a turning point in the war; Sept. 19 and Oct. 7, 1777; The battles were fought eighteen days apart on the same ground, 9 miles (14 km) south of Saratoga; British General John Burgoyne's campaign [was] to divide New England from the southern colonies; Burgoyne was therefore compelled to retreat, and his army was surrounded by the much larger American force at Saratoga, forcing him to surrender on October 17.)

(i) American Revolutionary War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War
("France's government under King Louis XVI secretly provided supplies, ammunition and weapons to the revolutionaries starting in 1776, and the Continentals' capture of a British army in 1777 led France to openly enter the war in early 1778, which evened the military strength with Britain. Spain and the Dutch Republic – French allies – also went to war with Britain over the next two years, threatening an invasion of Great Britain and severely testing British military strength with campaigns in Europe — including attacks on Minorca and Gibraltar — and an escalating global naval war. Spain's involvement culminated in the expulsion of British armies from West Florida, securing the American colonies' southern flank.")

(c) The "loyalists" are colonists who supported the crown in the revolution.
(d) Oneida people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneida_people
(section 1: The People of the Standing Stone)
(e) Mohawk people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk_people
(People of the Flint)
(f) muster roll (n): "INVENTORY, ROSTER; specifically : a register of the officers and men in a military unit or ship's company"

(i) muster (n):
"2a : an act of assembling; specifically : formal military inspection
b : critical examination
c : an assembled group : COLLECTION
d : INVENTORY"

Both definitions are from www.m-w.com.


My comment: As far as I know, US and Britian is good at preserving their historical data. (The latter still keeps census data a millennium ago.) Neither China nor Taiwan can match in this regard.


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Regarding Note:
(a)(ii) Saratoga Springs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saratoga_Springs
(The name reflects the presence of mineral springs in the area. While the
word "Saratoga" is known to be a corruption of a Native American place name,
authorities disagree on what the exact word was, and hence what it meant.)

I double check, with historical societies of towns in the county and county of Saratoga itslef, which show the following is corect.

Saratoga, New York
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saratoga,_New_York
(Saratoga is a corruption of an Indian word from the Mohawk language [where] 'Se-rach-ta-gue' meant 'the hillside country of the quiet river.')

(2) Saratoga, National Historical Park, New York. National Park Service (NPS), US Department of Interior, undated.
http://www.nps.gov/sara/historyculture/

provides a good overview of Battles of Saratoga.


【 在 choi 的大作中提到: 】
: Chris Carola, Did your ancestor fight at Saratoga? You can check. Associated Press, Oct. 21, 2010.
: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TRAVEL_BRIEF_SARATOGA_BATTLES_DATABASE_TRVOL?SITE=DCSAS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
: ("The project was made possible by the detailed records kept by many American regiments")
: (以下引言省略...)

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