Its garrison consisted of only fifteen hundred continental troops, and about as many militia, over whom the general had no control.
Their supply of provisions was exhausted, and only one man in ten of the militia had bayonets to their guns.

Under these circumstances it was deemed best to withdraw the garrison six days after the investment.
Burgoyne now advanced rapidly, but with so little precaution as to leave his communications in rear entirely unprotected.

Being repulsed by the American forces collected at Saratoga, his line of supplies cut off by our detached forts, his provisions exhausted, his troops dispirited, and his Indian allies having deserted him, retreat became impossible, and his whole army was forced to capitulate.

This campaign closed the military operations on our northern frontier during the war of the Revolution.
We now come to the war of 1812.

In the beginning of this war the number of British regulars in the Canadas did not exceed three thousand men, who were scattered along a frontier of more than nine hundred miles in extent.