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RULES AND HISTORY

1. INTRODUCTION

e British looked to end the rebellion in America in a decisive campaign with three armies converging in Albany, New

York, splitting the colonies in two. With a large and well-trained force moving south from Canada, Sir John Burgoyne moved

inexorably - if slowly - down the Hudson. His old colleague, Horatio Gates, was there to meet him with an American army

determined to halt further progress.

By the end of the Saratoga campaign Burgoyne’s entire army was dead, wounded, or captured. Worse was to follow, with the

French soon joining the war. Yet it might have played out very differently...

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