Great Battles in History
Season 1 Episode 30 - Saratoga and The Battle of Rivoli
The Battles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. British General John Burgoyne led an invasion army of 7,200–8,000 men southward from Canada in the Champlain Valley, hoping to meet a similar British force marching northward from New York City and another British force marching eastward from Lake Ontario; the goal was to take Albany, New York. The southern and western forces never arrived, and Burgoyne was surrounded by American forces in upstate New York 15 miles (24 km) short of his goal. He fought two battles which took place 18 days apart on the same ground 9 miles (14 km) south of Saratoga, New York. He gained a victory in the first battle despite being outnumbered, but lost the second battle after the Americans returned with an even larger force.
Episodes in Season 1
Stalingrad - 1942
50 min
Trafalgar 1805
48 min
Pearl Harbour
49 min
The Battle of Marathon
43 min
The Lost Evidence of Iwo Jima
45 min
D-Day
55 min
The Battle of Waterloo - 1815
48 min
Chalons
21 min
Battle of Hastings 1066
21 min
Merrill’s Marauders
44 min
The Battle of Austerlitz
48 min
Gallipoli
48 min
Midway
45 min
The Battle of Gettysburg - 1863
48 min
The Armada - 1588
52 min
Battle of the Bulge
48 min
The Third Crusade
48 min
The battle of Alesia
21 min
Cannae
21 min
The Six-Day War
48 min
The Battle of Britain
49 min
Battle of Kadesh - Ramesses II
43 min
The Battle of Agincourt
48 min
The Battle of Inchon
21 min
Tobruk
25 min
Little Bighorn
48 min
Cambrai 1917
49 min
Operation Desert Storm
43 min
The Great War
47 min
Saratoga and The Battle of Rivoli
43 min
The Battle for Berlin
44 min
The Battle of El Alamein
48 min
TET Ofenssive
44 min
The Russo-Finnish War
104 min
The Battle of Tannenberg
45 min
Life in the Trenches
54 min
Monte Cassino 1944
49 min
Balaclava 1854
48 min
Guadalcanal
48 min
