“Neither side could boast of driving the other from the field”

General Arnold sent the 1st New Hampshire Regiment to support scattered riflemen fighting the British 62nd Regiment of Foot. After suffering such heavy losses that they were obliged to retreat, the Americans were reinforced by the 3rd New Hampshire and Colonel Thaddeus Cook's Connecticut militia, and the 1st New Hampshire returned to renew the attack. For hours, the fighting surged back and forth as the British found themselves greatly outnumbered. An unidentified American officer wrote on September 20, 1777, that the Americans fought under cover of a wood while the British were drawn up in battalions on a more open field, that the riflemen picked off many British officers, and that British artillery and musketry were very ill directed, with no shot from their field pieces taking effect except among the limbs of trees.

Saratoga, New York · United States