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Events

• From 1779 to 1780, about 4000 of Burgoyne’s troops surrendered under the “Convention” of Saratoga, were quartered at Albemarle Barracks near Charlottesville until 1781.

• The Convention Army occupied the Albemarle Barracks from January 1779 until new concerns arose about prisoner liberation caused by a British invasion of coastal Virginia in the fall of 1780. The British Convention troops were marched from Albemarle County on November 20, 1780, to Fort Frederick, Maryland while the German troops remained until February 20, 1781, when they were marched to Winchester, Virginia.
• In October, part of Burgoyne’s troops were sent to Lancaster, Pa.