Episode 151 The St. Leger Expedition

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

History, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

As General Burgoyne Launches his Campaign from Canada into upstate New York, General Barry St. Leger leads a second army made up primarily of Native Americans and Loyalists through Western New York's Mohawk Valley. St. Leger planned to capture Fort Stanwix, then link up with Burgoyne's army at Albany. Visit my site at https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com for more text, pictures, maps, and sources on this topic. Book Recommendation of the Week: With Musket and Tomahawk. Volume II: The Mohawk Valley Campaign in the Wilderness War of 1777, by Michael O. Logusz. Online Recommendation of the Week: ebook, Border Wars of the American Revolution, Vol. 1, by William Leets Stone: https://archive.org/details/borderwarsamrev01stonrich Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.0	Today, episode 151, the St. Ledger Expedition.
0:55.0	For the last couple of weeks, our attention turned to Philadelphia,
0:59.0	but before that we were following General Johnny Burgin as his army moved into New York and reached the Hudson
1:05.8	River.
1:06.8	Bergoin had also sent a second force on a different route led by General Barry St. Ledger. Today we are going to look at that, the
1:15.8	St. Ledger campaign. I already gave some background about General St. Ledger back in
1:21.3	episode 142. Barrymore, Matthew, St. Ledger back in episode 142.
1:23.0	Bower, Matthew, St. Ledger, was an Irish-born son of a noble Protestant family.
1:29.0	He had extensive experience in Canada during the French and Indian War and had risen to lieutenant colonel by the beginning of the
1:36.4	Revolutionary War. By this time he had the temporary rank of Brigadier General in America and an independent command.
1:46.3	General Burgoyne had been moving the main army from Canada down Lake Champlain to Fort
1:51.5	Ticonderoga, then on to the Hudson River, where he planned to move on to Albany.
1:58.2	At the same time, General St. Ledger would take his smaller force up the St Lawrence River to Lake Ontario. From there his
2:06.8	force would move east through the Mohawk Valley with the intent of linking up with General
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