never stepped foot on the field during the battle that day, nor did the second-in-command, but horatio gates was given the honor of having won that great battle, and congress had minted a special coin. there is a wonderful painting of the surrender with gates accepting the surrender from the british. this was a great turning point in the revolution, and because of that great victory, the french, who had been quietly helping us, decided to come out openly and support the americans, and it was basically because of them that we won. once the french got into the war, the british realized they were going to have to pull back a bit in america because they had colonies and interests all over the world where the french would be competing against them, so this was really a tremendous help. arnold, of course can something like three months in a military hospital in

will get an opportunity for revenge on a grand scale in october of 1777 when american general horatio gatesaptures the army at saratoga. we know this is the turning point of the american revolution. they were both british officers, they both served together in the same regiment. there were old friends. gates is going to sign what is known as a convention. burgoyne will not surrender. he will sign a treaty that will allow him to go back to england on parole. as long as his men don't fight in america his whole army can go back. this is part of the gentlemanly culture of war that we talked about in the european context. if you are an american in milford, connecticut and your brother dies on a prison ship, suddenly you have 6000 british prisoners in your custody, now is the time to put them on on a prison ship. now is the time to obtain justice for your murdered love ones. ordinary americans are infuriated by the treaty. they will petition congress, demanding that they do something. that is exactly what will happen. in january of 1778 congress will repudiate the convention of saratoga. they wil

horatio gates was given the honor much having won that great battle and congress had minted a special coin and there's a wonderful painting of the surrender. this was a great turning point in the revolution and because of that great victory, the french who had been helping us decide to come out openly and support the americans and it was basically because of them that we won. once the french got into the war, the english realized they were going to have to pull back a bit. this was really a tremendous help. arnold spent something like three months in a military hospital in albany in terrible pain. the doctors wanted to amputate his leg. and he would not allow them to do that. the amputation would probably have made sense because he may have gotten gangrene. i think he probably did not want to because he didn't want to live a cripple, he would have preferred to have died. i have a picture of him falling during that battle. after three months i was okay. he survived. but he was having to learn to walk again, he was really really badly maimed from that, it was never completely held. i sh

will get an opportunity for revenge on a grand scale in october of 1777, when american general horatio gatesaptures british general john burgoyne's army at saratoga. we know this is the turning point of the american revolution. what we probably don't think about too often is that they were both british officers. they both served together in the same regiment when they were 13 years old. they were old friends. gates is going to sign what is known as a convention. burgoyne will not surrender. he will sign a treaty of convention with a cessation of hostility that will allow him to go back to england on parole. as long as his men don't fight in america, his whole army can go back. this is part of that gentlemanly culture of war that we talked about in the european context. but you can imagine, if you are an american in milford, connecticut, and your brother died on a british prison ship, and suddenly you have 6000 british and brunswick prisoners in your custody, now is the time to put them on a prison ship. right? now is the time to obtain vengeance, justice for your murdered loved ones. so ordi

their opportunity for revenge on a grand scale in october of 1777 when british -- american general horatio gates captures general john burgoin's army at saratoga. what we don't think about too often is that burgoin and gates were british officers, both served together in the same regiment, 13 years old, and they were old friends and gates is going to sign what is known as a convention. so burgoyne will not surrender. he will sign a treaty of convention, which is a cessation of hostilities. going to allow him to go back to england, on parole, as long as his men don't fight in america, his whole army can go back. this is part of that gentlemanly culture of war that we talked about in a european context. you can imagine if you're an american, and milford, connecticut, and your brother died on a british prison ship, you have 6,000 british and brunswick and german prisoners, in your custody, now is the time to put them on a prison ship, right? now is the time to obtain vengeance, justice for your murdered loved ones. ordinary americans are infuriated by gates' treaty. they petition congress, demandin

he had lent three brigades to horatio gates to fight in the campaign earlier that year. washington needs to have them back and he would like among them daniel morgan's riflemen. this mission will take a while. takes most of november into december. when hamilton meets gates it's inable by. gates is not up inable any because the battle is over, glowing in the aftermath of victory and one of the challenges that hamilton, of course, will encounter is that he's a 20-year-old aide who is born on an island. he's dealing with someone in gates who is well-established with the new england and northeastern aristocracy who is very powerful, old enough to be his dad and is a two-star general. do you think he wants to hear from a 20-year-old colonel that washington would like three brigades back? does gates have any respect for george washington for that matter? no, not at all. much like some of the politics that we all witness or participate in modern times, there's politics in that time around the military and alexander hamilton's first attempts are fruitless. they are futile. he th