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Horatio Gates at Saratoga (1728/29-1806), c. 1800, by James Peale (1749-1831).
James Peale painted one of the most significant battles of the Revolution. American Maj. Gen. Horatio Greene's victory seen here at Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1777, initiated the momentum that ultimately resulted in winning the war at Yorktown.
Gates, a British expatriate, married Mary Vallance, a Washington County Marylander, in 1786. Another Marylander, Maj. Gen. James Wilkinson, delivered Sir John Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga to Congress. |