Excerpt from Battles of Saratoga, 1777: The Saratoga Monument Association, 1856-1891 The kind reception which has been given to my monograph of Bur goyne's campaign, published in 187 7, by the public and by some eminent historians, leads me to illustrate this new edition with original views of the battle-ground and the historic tablets which have been erected to mark differ ent points of interest. The history of monument associations, such as is here offered of the Saratoga Monument Association, is usually published in a small edition for circulation among those only who are especially interested in such work. But if we may believe the signs of the times, a period has arrived in the intel lectual development of our country when historical subjects can scarcely be claimed as belonging exclusively to a small class of people. General attention has been aroused; and it therefore seems a \suitable time to direct the public mind to such work as has been done to commemorate the deeds of the founders of our Republic, and to stimulate an interest which may lead to the full accomplishment of a much-neglected work, by which every revolutionary battle-ground in the country shall be marked with a suitable monument, and the most noted become public parks, belonging to the Government, which is an evolution whose beginning was on these fields of heroism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.