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423: 342: 586: 374: 562: 750:. A while back I was confused by the same thing and thought Saratoga Campaign and Battle should be the same. However I'm now inclined to paring down the campaign page so that it forks to each of the individual skirmishes. There's a whole bunch of strategy over several months in the campaign including fights at Fort Ticonderoga. Some of these battles were more than 100 miles apart. In American Civil War battles the format is to keep the campaigns and individual battles separate. 358: 390: 482: 451: 21: 715:. That is at least one too many. I am inclined to believe that "Battle of Saratoga" is the article that should be merged/deleted, because there was no such thing as a "battle of Saratoga". There were two actions, Freeman's Farm and Bemis Heights, eighteen days apart. I suggest that "battle of Saratoga" be a redirect to the Saratoga campaign article, and that the Saratoga campaign article include links to the battles at Bemis Heights and Freeman's Farm. 160: 64: 492: 205: 406: 280: 236: 867:
I find that the article contains good prose, a neutral point-of-view, and contains many citations to apparently reliable sources. I have read Richard Ketchum's book, and live within walking distance of the Hubbardton battlefield. Nothing I have read or heard at presentations and reenactments at the
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Because my time is limited, I have no intention of making these changes myself. I hope someone reading this will attempt to reorganize the Saratoga articles to make them easier to understand and edit, and to prevent forking. The fact that I must add this notice to four or five different articles is
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all the way! Without this gravity-driven gradient water would not flow down a river--or lake--to the sea. Thus, it is normal, especially within military parlance, to speak of traveling 'up' a lake or 'down' a lake--the same as up or down a river. (Only those lakes with no land-surface outlet exist
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page, but I felt a brief explanation was called for here. I plan to go build and/or update articles on the inividual battles and events of Burgoyne's expedition, updating these sections with appropriate summaries as those articles are finished. As always, any help will be appreciated.
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article. That person might not edit all three articles, and may not even understand how the three articles relate. Multiply this by the many editors who contribute to the articles over the years, and you get diverging accounts of the battles and
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Additionally, there may not be a need for a "Battle of Saratoga" article at all, since all that information can be divided between the "Saratoga campaign" article and well as the two battle articles. This will prevent confusion and further
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As a matter of fact, now that I think about it, that's what I'm going to do. Going to change the title of the "Battle of Saratoga" article right now, and merge the two separate battle articles into it at some future date.
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Another option would be to retitle the "Battle of Saratoga" article as "BattleS of Saratoga", merge both the Bemis Heights and Freeman's Farm articles into that article in their entirety, and delete the latter two.
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I have removed the sentence "Joseph Brant killed and tortured Indians who did not support the Crown" since the information is not only irrelevant but dubious. While there is an inline citation (Michael Logusz's
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Most lakes are NOT flat; ie, 'most' of the world's lakes are integral segments of valley & river systems that accumulate and deliver water from the uplands to the coastal oceans--
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Thanks! (I may not live near the Hubbardton battlefield, but I visited there this past summer, along with a bunch of other sites related to this campaign.)
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Great work on all these articles Lou. (I realize I'm writing this more than two years later, so you may not even be watching this page any longer.)
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There is one major problem that has developed with this structure over the years since you initially wrote the articles. The issue is that of "
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with 'flat' surfaces, eg, Salt Lake, the Dead Sea.) I have returned the article to the previous phrasing.--
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I think that's a good idea -- basically to include all the action the Saratoga National Battlefield.
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Hubbardton battlefield visitor center contradict the article. Good job.
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