We’re having a photo contest! If you want to participate you can become a member here.   Friends of Saratoga Battlefield Member Photo Contest   Name  _____________________________________ Address ____________________________________ City _____________________ State ________ Zip ________ E-mail ____________________  Phone ________________________ Enter your original photo of the Saratoga National Historical Park. That includes the Battlefield, the Surrender Site,… Read more: Member Photo Contest!

Thursday, December 7, 6:30 pmSaratoga National Historical Park Visitor Center Theater Studying the terrain to analyze how the action unfolded on Revolutionary Warbattlefields isn’t just a modern pursuit. It was the first order of business when the FrenchArmy arrived on American soil, seeking to understand the war they had just joined.Contrary to popular belief, French… Read more: Retracing Our Steps: the French-American Joint Reconnaissance Tour in the Winter of 1780-1781

Thursday, November 30, 6:30 pmSaratoga National Historical Park Visitor Center Theater Almost all media covering the 1777 Battles of Saratoga tell a story of AmericanGenerals Benedict Arnold and Horatio Gates embroiled in a nasty conflict ofpersonalities which peaked when Gates stripped Arnold from command. Nevertheless,Arnold famously defied Gates and participated in the decisive October 7… Read more: “Perticulars that I have Been eye & ear witness to”: How Nathaniel Bacheller Changed History

EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS Thursday, November 9, 6:30 pmSaratoga National Historical Park Visitor Center Theater Benedict Arnold is a figure well-known to Americans and aficionados of the Battles ofSaratoga. Less well known is General John Watts de Peyster, a resident of DutchessCounty, New York, who paid for a special inscription to be added to… Read more: A Tale of Two Generals: The Later History of the Benedict Arnold Monument at Saratoga Battlefield ** CANCELLED **

October 25th at 6:30pm Saratoga National Historical Park Visitor Center Theater Taking the perspective of enslaved Africans and their descendants attached to GeneralPhilip Schuyler’s country estate, we will explore their work, family, and leisureexperiences with a primary focus on the early eighteenth century to the early nineteenthcentury. Myra Young Armstead is a tenured, senior faculty… Read more: Dr. Myra Young Armstead, Ph.D. presents “The Loango Connection: Slavery and Slaveholding at Saratoga House and Its Environs”