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...tide of war had begun to turn at Saratoga in the autumn of 1777, when Britain's grand plan to take the Hudson River Valley and thus split the colonies came abruptly to grief. General John Burgoyne, with 8,000 British and Hessian troops, came south from Canada almost unopposed. But General Howe, who was to go north to meet him, sailed away to take Philadelphia instead. An American army under General Horatio Gates blocked Burgoyne on high ground on the west bank of the river. Soon it did more: Benedict Arnold, the most daring, most ambitious, most feared...
...Last Resorts, by Cleveland Amory. An agreeably lighthearted historian applies a social stethoscope to Newport, Bar Harbor, Saratoga, Palm Beach and other aging resorts of the rich (TIME...
...Madison Square Garden. The company corralled the running-horse market in 1917, when it signed an agreement with most of the nation's leading breeders giving it sole rights to sell their horses. In return, Fasig-Tipton built stalls, sales paddocks and other installations at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., thereby making the yearling sales at the spa the most famed...
...Last Resorts, by Cleveland Amory. An agreeably lighthearted historian applies a social stethoscope to Newport, Bar Harbor, Saratoga, Palm Beach and other aging resorts of the rich (TIME...
...Last Resorts, by Cleveland Amory. An agreeably Hghthearted historian applies a social stethoscope to Newport, Bar Harbor. Saratoga, Palm Beach and other aging resorts of the rich (TIME...