Parks in Stillwater, New York

Inscription. By closing the road and river, the Americans forced the British into rough, wooded lands where they could not use their infantry and artillery to best advantage. , Erected by Saratoga National Historical Park, National ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Captain 4th Company, Colonel Thaddeus Cooks Regiment, Connecticut Militia, Killed here in the Battle, of Saratoga, September 19, 1777, Erected by Bidwell Family Association, September 19, 1924, , Erected 1924 by Bidwell ... More on HMDB

Inscription. If the redcoats had advanced down the road below toward Albany the guns of this strongpoint would have been the first to greet them. In 1777 the road swung from its present route diagonally across the fields below you ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Still caught in the frenzy of fighting at the Barber Wheat Field, American troops launched savage attacks across this area in a vain attempt to drive the Crown Forces from these fortif... More on HMDB

Inscription. Skillful military engineering converted this bluff into a stronghold. Gun batteries on the river flats below commanded even the hills on the other side of the river. Behind you, across... More on HMDB

Inscription. On the night of October 8, Burgoyne began his retreat northward. At Saratoga (Schuylerville) his army was surrounded by the Americans. After a week of siege, Burgoyne surrendered on Oc... More on HMDB

Inscription. Scaled in size according to the rank of the occupant, Crown Force officers tents – or marquees – graced the American wilderness with fluttering pennants, elegant fringe and... More on HMDB

Inscription. The fighting began where you now stand and in the woods behind you in mid-afternoon of October 7, 1777. Within minutes, more than 4,000 men collided in savage combat along a line stretching westward across the Barber ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Oct. 7th, 1777, His forces scattered, by Morgans riflemen. Gift of J. W. Drexel, , Location. 43° 0.069′ N, 73° 38.793′ W. Marker is in Stillwater, New York, in Saratoga County. Marker is on Park Tour ... More on HMDB

Inscription. To commemorate, the services of, Brig.-Gen. Abraham Ten Broeck, and the, Albany County Militia, in the, Battle of October 7, 1777, This monument, is erected by, Philip Livingston Chapter, Sons of the Revolution, in the ... More on HMDB

Inscription. In marked contrast to the officers marquees were hundreds of enlisted mens tents. The main British encampment of some 4,000 soldiers extended east of Balcarres Redoubt to beyond the crest of the rise in front of you and ... More on HMDB

Inscription. At the height of the fighting in the Barber Wheat Field, when New Hampshire Continentals overran two British cannons, an excited American officer, Colonel Joseph Cilly, leaped upon one of the smoking guns to claim it ... More on HMDB