Battle of Fort Anne

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The Battle of Fort Ann was part of the Saratoga campaign of the American Revolutionary War.

The battle took place on July 8, 1777 in Fort Anne, now Fort Ann, instead. The fort was built in 1757 at the confluence of the rivers Halway Creek and Wood Creek. The battle for the fort was a rearguard action after the defeat of the American forces in Skenesboro.

The Battle

Prior to the battle succeeded to the Americans, to bring a large group of civilians to safety and to deceive the enemy as to the true number of his troops with the help of a false deserter. When the British Colonel Hill near the fort arrived, he now believed that his troops were numerically clearly inferior. Then he waited for reinforcements. As a long of just that false deserter of the true strength of the British learned he attacked immediately and was able to inflict some losses. After two hours, went on both sides of the ammunition to an end, however, the tide of battle now bowed after the alleged arrival of British reinforcements in favor Hills. On the assumption that the British Indians were now reinforced by a contingent, the Americans broke the battle from, burned down the palisades of the fort and retreated to Fort Edward. The Indian allies, however, had refused their support and only a colonel came to the British.

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