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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC04764.41 |
From Archive Folder | Burgoyne-Kingston collection: papers concerning Convention Army after Saratoga |
Title | Advanced Corps |
Date | 1777-1778 |
Document Type | Military document |
Content Description | Complaints of the Advanced Corps over the implementation of the Articles of Convention after the Battle of Saratoga. Date inferred from other documents in this collection, which have similar complaints around the end of 1777. Place written inferred from the fact that prisoners of war from the Battle of Saratoga were sent to Cambridge, Massachusetts. They are angry about not being quartered by rank, their early curfew, and the inability to buy items like bread and milk from anyone other than the commissary. The Advanced Corps was an elite group in General John Burgoyne's army that was defeated at Saratoga in October 1777. It consisted of the British grenadier battalion, British light infantry battalion, the 24th Regiment, the company of British marksmen, Indians, and companies of British artillery, Canadian militia, and Loyalists. |
Subjects | Battle Battle of Saratoga Military History Revolutionary War Surrender Convention Army Prisoner of War Prison Camp Petition Military Provisions Diet and Nutrition Merchants and Trade American Indian History Canada Loyalist |
Place written | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Theme | The American Revolution |
Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |