Situated approximately three-fourths of a mile northwest of the site of
Fort Neilson and extending some 1,000 yards west of present State Route
32, is the position which the flanking column of 1,500 soldiers under
Burgoyne occupied at the beginning of the American attack on October 7.
Here on the southern slope of the rise of ground, just north of the
Middle Ravine, the British met the full fury of the first American
attack. It was in this area that General Fraser received his mortal
wound and many other British officers were killed, wounded, or taken
prisoner before Burgoyne ordered a retreat to the Balcarres Redoubt. The
badly wounded Major Acland, commander of the British Grenadiers, and
Major Williams, commander of the British Artillery, were both taken
prisoners by the Americans in this area on October 7.
[Illustration: _The Schuyler House. The main part of this building
was erected by Gen. Philip Schuyler to replace an earlier house,
which was burned by Burgoyne's troops on October 10, 1777. The
house, situated in Schuylerville (Old Saratoga), is being restored
to the period of Schuyler family occupancy._]