Cultural Landscape Report and Archeological Sensitivity Assessment for Victory Woods

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Excerpt from Cultural Landscape Report and Archeological Sensitivity Assessment for Victory Woods: Saratoga National Historical ParkLocated in the Village of Victory within the Town of Saratoga, in the heights above the Hudson River, Victory Woods contains a portion of the British field fortification and encampment from the Revolutionary War (figure Historical evidence indicates that this Site has remained largely undisturbed since the war. Except for a potable water supply system which was confined to a small area, no building is known to have taken place on the site, and it is unlikely that the tract was ever used for agricultural purposes. Thus, these defensive remains in Victory Woods may now provide virtually the only surviving coherent and Visible evidence of the famous American Siege of the British army in 1777. While the parcel was a strategically important piece of land during the Revolutionary War, the site was used by Native American use as far back as the Middle and Late Archaic periods.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.