Benedict Arnold Boot Monument

Erected 1887 by

John Watts de Peyster

Brev. Maj. Gen. S.N.Y.

2nd V. Pres’t Saratoga Mon’t Ass’t’n

In memory of

the “most brilliant soldier” of the

Continental Army,

who was desperately wounded

on this spot, the sally port of

Burgoynes “Great (Western) Redoubt”

7th October 1777,

winning for his countrymen

the Decisive ...