Burgoyne's Campaign - 1777 - Oswego, New York
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This plaque in relation to Colonel Barry St. Leger, who led a British Force against Fort Stanwix, is located across from Oswego's City Hall, on the grounds of the Oswego Police Department, at the corner of West 1st Street and West Oneida Street.
Waymark Code: WM163FC
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 04/26/2022
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member MeerRescue
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Inscription on the plaque

Burgoyne's Campaign

1777

Colonel Barry St. Leger proceeding by bateaux from Montreal arrived at Fort Oswego in July 1777. He led a British Force here augmented by Indians to seventeen hundred men with which he set out to capture Fort Stanwix now Rome, New York.

His repulse at the bloody battle of Oriskany and at Fort Stanwix was the first disaster in the campaign which resulted in Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga.

Erected by
Oswego Historical Society
and the State of New York
Type of Historic Marker: Plaque

Historical Marker Issuing Authority: Oswego Historical Society and the State of New York

Age/Event Date: 07/01/1777

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