Chapter 625 (2/2)
So the Department of St. Redge made a decisive attack, attacked the Department of Horatio gates in the dark, and successfully rescued the besieged bergoin department. After the two joined forces, bergoin attacked the Arnold division of the northern army.
Although we don't know the casualties of Arnold's Department, the stone bear can guess that the casualties of Arnold's department must be very serious.
The great victory of Saratoga in history has not been staged in this time and space.
Stone bear's guess is right. Arnold's Department, which was attacked by bergoin's Department fiercely, has lost a lot. Strictly speaking, it can't describe the war damage of Arnold's department in this battle. If the stone bear saw the tragedy of Arnold's department with his own eyes, he would definitely label Arnold's department as being maimed.
It's true.
Benedict Arnold's 3000 army troops, under the Revenge of the angry bergoin, killed more than 700 people, and injured more than 2000 people. There are less than 300 people in the whole Arnold department who are able to maintain the integrity.
Most importantly, the body of Benedict Arnold, the commander-in-chief of the force, was also found.
This army general, who had a great reputation in history, later defected to the United States and took refuge with the British. He was the biggest traitor in the history of the founding of the United States by later American historians. He was shot with four arrows and had three bullet holes
The deadliest arrow went through his neck from the side, and a lead bullet went through his lung.
So this famous general, who was born in poverty in the original historical time and space, but formed his own militia company to resist the British when the independent war broke out, led the army to capture tekondroga fortress, and then led 500 Army soldiers to attack Quebec for 600 miles in eight weeks. This general was defeated in Quebec But in the subsequent battle of Champlain lake, he used the simple warship built by himself to resist the general of the British warship. Although he led the army to attack bergoin, he was removed by Horatio gates, but still with unparalleled prestige, so that countless armies voluntarily followed and finally defeated bergoin, He died quietly in the battlefield where he should have been successful.
Benedict Arnold, who is only 36 years old this year, is a military genius. In the original historical time and space, although he later defected to the British side because of the high-level pressure of the United States, it is undeniable that in the early days of the independent war, without this Colonel Arnold, the final success of the independent war is still unknown.
At the beginning of the war of independence, he captured tekondroga fortress, and handed over the arms and materials and dozens of cannons seized from tekondroga fortress to Watson, which gave Watson heavy weapons. Later, although the surprise attack on Quebec was not successful, it successfully prevented the pursuit of Carleton, the British commander in chief in Canada, with a simple self-made warship in Lake Champlain.
Just these two things are enough to prove Arnold's courage and meticulousness and his outstanding military accomplishment.
Later, Mahan, a famous American military scientist and author of the sea power theory, commented: ”there has never been an army, whether large or small, that has done better or died more gloriously than Arnold. The army's victory over Saratoga is due to Arnold's fleet's priceless time
Even if Arnold was forced to mutiny later, no one can deny that he made great contributions to the army at the beginning of the independent war!
It's just that this legendary generation, which was famous in the original historical time and space, fell down because of a small variable in this time and space