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Updated: May 7, 2025
Efforts were made to keep the disaster a secret from the army, but the movements made in consequence of it told the story but too plainly. In the first place, the whole army was hurried up to Batten-Kill in order to cover Breyman's and Frazer's retreat, for Frazer had been ordered to recross the Hudson at once.
Burgoyne then began manoeuvring so as to mask Baum's movements from Schuyler. Frazer was marched down to Batten-Kill, with his own and Breyman's corps. Leaving Breyman here to support either Baum or himself, in case of need, Frazer crossed the Hudson on the fourteenth, and encamped on the heights of Saratoga that night. The rest of the army moved on to Duer's, the same day.
FREEMAN'S HOUSE was made use of by Burgoyne, during the battle of September 9, as his headquarters. After this battle it was included within the British lines. Burgoyne, at Batten-Kill, had only a choice of evils to make.
The whole army had thus made a retrograde movement in consequence of the defeat at Bennington, and now lay in echelon from Fort Edward to Batten-Kill, in the camps it had occupied before the advance was begun; it had retreated upon its communications; it was put on the defensive.
The hostile armies now lay, quietly gathering up their strength for the decisive struggle, within sound of each other's evening guns. Gates was the first to act. Having been joined by Morgan's rifle corps, and by large numbers of militia, the whole army now moved up to Stillwater, within a dozen miles of the enemy, who still remained intrenched behind the Batten-Kill.
The command was given to Colonel Baum, who, with about a thousand Germans, Indians, Canadians, and refugee loyalists, started out from camp on his maraud, on the eleventh, halted at Batten-Kill on the twelfth, and reached Cambridge on the thirteenth. He was furnished with Tory guides, who knew the country well, and with instructions looking to a long absence from the army.
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