VIII
A STRANGER COMES
During the entire Revolutionary War of eight long years, we never whipped the British in but two fights which had the slightest effect in driving them from this continent. Only one of these battles did we gain unaided. At Stillwater we captured General Burgoyne with 5,791 men, the Continentals and militia numbering about 17,000, with a total force present and fit for duty of 13,020. Of these
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