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In mid-September 1777, an American army of 8,500 was encamped on these uplands, called Bemis Heights, where the soldiers worked feverishly building fortifications to block the Crown Forces marching from the north. The site of American Horatio Gates’ headquarters and the field hospital lay about ¼ mile to the south.
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Stillwater, New York · United States
