John Burgoyne
In the Revolutionary War, Britain had a strategy to cut the United States in two. Howe would move north from New York City while another British force would come south from Canada to meet him. John Burgoyne, a young British officer, secured command of this northern force and planned a two-pronged attack along both the Mohawk and the upper Hudson approaches to Albany. Howe abandoned the plan and Burgoyne was left to carry out the campaign in the north alone. He seized Fort Ticonderoga, but after he experienced defeats at Oriskany, New York and at Bennington, Vermont.