why was the battle of saratoga considered the turning point of the revolutionary war?
(b)it encouraged european powers, like france, to help out the colonist
(c)it was the first time the continential army was defeated by actual british troops
(d)th e british were surrounded and needed the germans to help them defeat the colonists
i wanna choose c but the thing is i thinks it wrong written in my test so yeah help plzzz
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That night the British commander left his campfires burning and withdrew his troops behind the Great Redoubt, which protected the high ground and river flats at the northeast corner of the battlefield. The next night, October 8, after burying General Fraser in the redoubt, the British began their retreat northward. They had suffered 1,000 casualties in the fighting of the past three weeks; American losses numbered less than 500. After a miserable march in mud and rain, Burgoyne’s troops took refuge in a fortified camp on the heights of Saratoga. There, an American force that had grown to nearly 20,000 men surrounded the exhausted British army. Faced with such overwhelming numbers, Burgoyne surrendered on October 17, 1777. By the terms of the Convention of Saratoga, Burgoyne’s depleted army, some 6,000 men, marched out of its camp “with the Honors of War” and stacked its weapons along the west bank of the Hudson River. Thus was gained one of the most decisive victories in American and world history.
The other answers are stupid.
The french JOINED the colonists after this battle. The French aid was one of the major reasons this battle is considered a turning point. French aid was to prove crucial, especially at the final battle of Yorktown–it was French shipping which surrounded Yorktown.
The continental army captured the the 9000 strong British army, thus removing the British threat in that part of the colonial world.
The Germans? The Americans WON, not the British.
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