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It's unlikely the Americans could have won the revolution on their own.

They needed a powerful ally. This is why they

sent their greatest diplomatic asset, Benjamin Franklin, to Paris soon after the signing of the

Declaration of Independence. But Franklin made little progress with the French. Nobody wants to

back a loser. And that's what America looked like, until the Battle of Saratoga.

At the start of 1777, the British were eager to end the war. This is how they would do it.

General John Bergoin would move down from Canada into the Hudson River Valley of New York,

isolating New England from the rest of the country. General William

Howell would move up from New York City to support Burgoyne. That was Burgoyne's plan, anyway.

But Hal had his own plan, capture the American capital, Philadelphia, and destroy Washington's

army in the process. In other words, there were two plans,

which is tantam out to saying, there was no plan, not a good way to run a war. In June 1777,

Burgoyne ordered Lieutenant Colonel Barry St. Leger to seize Fort Stanwyx near present-day Rome,

New York. This would secure

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