ABSTRACT
Some outrages by the Indian auxiliaries, which rumour wildly exaggerated, had put all Upper New York as well as New England at the service of those organising resistance. Before long strong forces were beginning to surround Burgoyne in a way whose dangers he failed soon enough to appreciate, owing to his reliance on the effects of a British advance from New York under Clinton, an advance only begun too late. When, indeed, news of Burgoyne’s surrender at Saratoga reached Parliamentarians on December 3rd, one observant friend of Administration not only prepared a correspondent for a possible British evacuation of Philadelphia in America but for large changes at home. The problem of replacing the wastage of Crown troops in America, greatly increased as it was by Saratoga, threatened, unless met with determination, to become increasingly difficult.
