Born in Battle 5.2

Increasingly isolated and low on supplies with the campaigning season slipping away, General John Burgoyne gambles on a desperate bid to cut his way through to Albany, where General Clinton is expected to arrive by transport from New York. In an initial battle at Freeman's Farm, Burgoyne's army is stopped in its tracks by Americans under the command of hard-fighting Benedict Arnold. Three weeks later, his anticipated reinforcements Clinton having returned to New York, Burgoyne is soundly beaten and driven from the field. Falling back on Saratoga, he is compelled to surrender. His failure to isolate New England from the rest of the colonies, the strategic objective of the campaign, is widely seen as a turning point in the war.