Excerpt from Major General Philip Schuyler and the Burgoyne Campaign in the Summer of 1777: The Annual Address Delivered Tuesday Evening, 2d January, 1877, Before the New York Historical Society The very spot selected for the Surrender of Burgoyne was the ground where Schuyler's house stood, and Gates and his suite met the British generals and their staffs not far below the smouldering ruins of General Schuyler's mansion, and elegant improvements which the English general had caused to be burned, and, as he testifies, was the only property fired by the direction of himself or officers during the campaign. Burgoyne even valued them at sterling - equal to more than three times that amount at the present day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.