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Rh tent dandy, General Gates, had taken the place of honest Philip Schuyler, but not even his pettiness could dampen the ardor of his men. His army was spread out along the western bank of the Hudson from Stillwater down to Half Moon, and Burgoyne's troops were on the eastern bank about thirty miles farther up than the Americans' lines, and extended from Fort Edward to Batten Kill.

All these things Robert Dorlon learned soon after his arrival, but his own personal experiences and what befell him were to be entirely outside the deeds of the heroic little army of patriots.