It was Burgoyne's over confidence and there were to many several key tactical errors.
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Edgar Degas. This is one of his paintings.
The city on a hill, is the phrase was used by puritan leader john winthrop in 1630 through the first group of puritan emigrants was still on board their ship the arbella waiting to disembark and make the first settlement in what would become new england. The city unit of this sermon was dragged out by well beside readers as a crystallization of the puritan mission in the new world.
So the new nation doesn't collapse on its-self <span />
Most of the laws or rules they came up with were based off of what they interpreted from the bible. and were "god given rights" that they were allowed to have or do. even if they weren't necessarily right.