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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-843
TO REDESIGNATE SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL
PARK AS SARATOGA NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK
DECEMBER 10, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 8931]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 8931) to redesignate Saratoga National Historical Park
as Saratoga National Battlefield Park, having considered the same,
reports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends
that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
The purpose of H.R. 8931 is to redesignate Saratoga National
Historical Park as Saratoga National Battlefield Park.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
On September 19, 1777, an army of Continental troops under the
command of General Horatio Gates stood its ground against the
British Empire in present-day Saratoga County, New York.' Thus
began the Battles of Saratoga, in which American colonists would
rout a British invasion force marching southward from Canada,
capture an unprecedented six thousand English soldiers and Hes-
sian mercenaries, and create a turning point in the Revolutionary
War.2 Today, a 3,400-acre expanse of rolling hills and forested ra-
vines bordering the northern Hudson River conserves the location
of the pivotal Battles of Saratoga as the Saratoga National Historic
Park (Saratoga NHP), a unit of the NPS.3
'Saratoga. American Battlefield Trust. (n.d.). https://www.battlefields.org/learn/revolutionary-
war/battles/saratoga.
2Id.
3U.S. Department of the Interior. (n.d.). Saratoga-National Historic Park New York. Na-
tional Parks Service. https://www.nps.gov/sara/index.htm#.
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