Surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, Oct. 17, 1777 – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, Oct. 17, 1777, preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, Oct. 17, 1777
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The surrender of John Burgoyne's army is the event this engraving commemorates, dated October 17, 1777, the day British forces under Burgoyne laid down their arms near Saratoga, New York. Burgoyne had marched south from Canada hoping to split New England from the other colonies, but supply shortages and stiff resistance at Freeman's Farm and Bemis Heights left his army trapped. The defeat is widely regarded as a turning point of the American Revolution, because it convinced France to enter the war as an ally of the Americans. Prints like this one, issued soon after the event, helped spread news of the victory to a public eager for good news.
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1777 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,206 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-124722 |
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