"Setting the battle in its social and political context, Theodore Corbett examines Saratoga and its aftermath as part of ongoing conflicts among the settlers of the Hudson and Champlain Valleys of New York, Canada, and Vermont. This long, more local view reveals that the American victory actually resolved very little"--Jacket.

Settlement in the Hudson-Champlain valley -- Settlement of the grants: a cause of discord with New York -- New alliances as the war of independence begins -- Guy Carleton and the rebel retreat from Canada -- Promoting loyalism among Native Americans -- British success: Ticonderoga, Hubbardton, Skenesborough, Fort Ann -- Degrees of loyalism -- In Vermont, taking an oath of allegiance to the king -- Seeking Native American support -- Foray to the Walloomsac -- Burgoyne outnumbered -- To retreat, escape, or surrender -- Intensifying civil conflict -- The loyalist diaspora -- Haldimand's forays -- Discord among the rebels: the need for protection in eastern New York -- Haldimand and the Arlington junta -- Haldimand forges a new Canada -- Debtor upheavals: a challenge of the postwar era.