[Lee'sGhost]

Did you happen to see "A man of Honor" last night? Pretty much gives credit of the victory at Saratoga to Benedict Arnold. As far as I could tell it was pretty accurate, a bit overly dramatic, and it was real hard accepting Kelsey Grammer as Washington. (OK, it was impossible.)

By the way, I was born in the "orginal" Washington. That being the one in North Carolina. Original because it was the first town in the US to be so named after our first Commander in Chief.

[Bogie]

I didn't see "A Man Of Honor." However Arnold was a key player in the battle. Burgoyne foolishly did not listen to his staff, and, on October 7th, attacked with a probe of 2,000 men. The idea was to find out where the Patriot weakness was. He was met, in large numbers, by Morgan's riflemen. (They had the rifled weapons.) The Britts were slaughtered. And, Burgoyne was close enough to the action to see what a mistake he had made. He called a retreat to the redoubts. Arnold pressed an assault on the Breymann Redoubt and Burgoyne's flank caved.

[Bogie]

P.S. Arnold was wounded, but got credit for the day. Col. Otto von Breymann, they say, was shot by one of his own Braunschweiger.

Still, it was the murder/scalping of Jane McCrea, a beautiful blonde who was to marry a Tory, that kept the Tory home and brought out the Patriot.