Valley Forge: The Second Battle Of Saratoga

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Valley Forge was the winter quarters of the army in 1777, there wasn 't a battle fought there and winter made it hard to find food and forage for the troops, they nearly starved. The Second Battle of Saratoga was also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights. The Americans were above the British and could see the location of the British troops, they could easily send their troops to the right spot to stop the British, this lead to the American victory. The swamps in the south made it easy for the Americans to fight a "guerrilla war" against the British there. The Americans knew the swamps and the British didn 't. They could ambush the British and then quickly retire into the swamps and the British couldn 't follow