The incident was appealing in its tragedy and stirred the deep anger of the population of the surrounding country among whose descendants to this day the tradition of the abandoned brutality of the British keeps alive the old hatred.
At Fort Edward Burgoyne now found that he could hardly move.

He was encumbered by an enormous baggage train.

His own effects filled, it is said, thirty wagons and this we can believe when we find that champagne was served at his table up almost to the day of final disaster.

The population was thoroughly aroused against him.

His own instinct was to remain near the water route to Canada and make sure of his communications.