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13. Elting, Battles of Saratoga, 62. 14. Pancake, The Year of the Hangman, 189. 15. Cook, Dawn Over Saratoga, 175. 16. General George Washington, “George Washington to Horatio Gates, October 30, 1777,” The American Revolution, 1763-1783, http://www.loc.gov (accessed July 19, 2010). 17. James Flexner, Washington: The Indispensable Man (New York: Back Bay Books, 1969), 109. 18. Ibid., 106. 19. Robert K. Wright, Jr., The Continental Army (Washington D.C.: Center of Military History, 1983), 118. 20. Pancake, Year of the Hangman, 214. 21. Ibid., 215. 22. Gordon S. Wood, The American Revolution (New York: Modern Library, 2002), 82. 16