A few days ago
Rigo

why was the battle of saratoga considered the turning point of the revolutionary war?

(a)the french were removed from north america

(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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A few days ago
Anonymous

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the answer is B and the reason it isn’t C is…

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.

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A few days ago
dnldslk
B.

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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4 years ago
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the technique of the US military to win a decisive conflict against the British from its very own components, without foreign places help, confident the French that the U.S. ought to win its independence from Britain with French suggestions. The French have been searching for a trend to make inroads interior the Americas after having been all yet pushed off the continent for the duration of the French and Indian conflict purely some years before. A friendly, self sustaining U.S. republic allied to France and open to French commerce grew to become into very beautiful to them. After Saratoga, the French began to brazenly participate interior the conflict on the U.S. area, and likewise confident Spain and the Netherlands to take part. at last, and after different defeats and a 2nd mass resign of a British military, the British chosen to make peace and comprehend the US as an self sustaining u . s . a ..
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