Wed Jun 26 2024

This episode tells the story of Lady Christian Henrietta Caroline “Harriet” Acland, aristocratic wife of Major John Dyke Acland, who commanded the British 20th Regiment of Foot during the Burgoyne campaign of 1777. When Major Acland was wounded and taken prisoner, Lady Harriet risked her own life and freedom to nurse him back to health. She would go on to publish her diary of her time travelling and living with the British Army during the American Revolution. Marker of Focus: Lady Acland, Village of Schuylerville, Saratoga County. Interviewees: Sean Kelleher, Town of Saratoga Historian and Anne Clothier, Assistant Saratoga County Historian Further Reading: Lady Harriet Acland, The Acland Journal: Lady Harriet Acland and the American War, 1993. Holly A. Mayer, Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community during the American Revolution, 1999. Richard M. Ketchum, Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War, 1999. Teachin...