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Show the armies of Burgoyue and Gates, but the two great actor in that battle that stand out conspicuously conspicu-ously were) on the English sid General Fraser, ou the American aide General Benedict ArmJd. Arnold had been, a skillful and Ajan, soldier all through the .war, but Gate wan not caper to recognize rec-ognize hia services, for Gate was a selfish man who could not bear to hear another even justly praiaed, lest' it taku some laurel fror.i his own gar-laud. gar-laud. "Through some quarrel or some difference of opinion, on the morning of that last day 'Arnold found himself really without a "command; but when the battle' grew hot he sprang upon his horse and rushed to the front, and during the rest of the brittle he was the moving, guiding, controlling spirit on the side of the colonists. Ilia old soldiers obeyed him ai.d, though one or twiee beaten back, he in person led them on and on, nntil night, falling at last with one shattered limb. On ihe other side General Fraser was one of those.' dauntless! men who did not believe it was possible for an English army, well handled, to he whipped; and so, as his columns broke time after time, he rallied then. roorganwed them and led them back into the fight, until in the last rally he was killed. It wss a groat day and so impressed upon the country was the work of Armrld that it broke the hearts of. his countrymen when finally, impatient at want of recognition, filled with thirst for revenge, he sold out his country. One distinguished man, asked what would he done if Arnold should he caught, replied, "Well bury that leg that waa shattered at Saratoga and hang the est of him." The battlefield bat-tlefield is beautiful place of wood a and streams. A glorious park ought to be established ther, be-tta be-tta it ares to the revolutionary -war -what Gettysburg Gettys-burg was to the eivil war; or we might aay Gettysburg Gettys-burg and Vieksburg combined, for after that the ultimate result was so clear that the war waa halting one on the' part of the English; and after Vicksburg and Gettysburg . the common remark waa that the southern soldiers were discouraged and never again fought with their old irresistible valor and impetuosity. SARATOGA PARS. A project haa long been on hand to create a state park on the battlefield of Saratoga, and now Governor Dix of New York has added his influence to have the work done. And it certainly should be done, because that battle really was the decisive buttle which msde ths independence of the colonists colo-nists sure. Of course, the final surreuder was tt Vorktown. many hundred miles south; but Saratoga Sara-toga broke th arm of Great Britain in America, si'd the rest of the wsr was. like the civil war afU'r Gettysburg, simply a question of time. A park oi. g!it to fee t-rented, ami statues of certain men t,hoi:M be set there, and the places where the -ris" jf tl.e bttlrj were located should lie market). There t ry niH'iy Americans that know the par- f i! t r''lit. In tlmse diiya there wece - i.s. Tin- buttle was bct.vo-.n |