About six hundred Redcoats were killed or wounded, yet Gates was not able to finish off the British army. He had good reason to hold back. The rebel army’s ammunition had been exhausted, and each of Morgan and Arnold’s soldiers had only about a single shot left. If Burgoyne had known this, he would have sent his men charging into the mix with their deadly bayonets, and the battle might have finished differently. It was not until the next day that General Schuyler arrived with a fresh supply of gunpowder and lead taken from windowpanes from houses in Albany that could be melted down for
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First phase of Saratoga
