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Get Ready to Retreat

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Here on these bluffs and in the valley below, Lieutenant-General John Burgoyne reassembled his army one day after the October 7 battle. The Hudson River and the river road had made it possible for the British Army to march south in an attempt to take Albany. With the army defeated, discouraged, and hungry, it prepared to retreat north.
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