Saratoga, New York (Location Key)

Saratoga, the town in upstate New York that was the site of a decisive American victory over the British during the Revolutionary War, becomes part of the Yoknapatawpha story in the last two volumes of the Snopes trilogy. In The Town, Eula Snopes tells Gavin Stevens about V.K. Ratliff's "six or eight or ten times grandfather," who was an ensign in the British army that surrendered there (338). The Mansion refers specifically to "Bemis's Heights" and "Freeman's Farm" (198), two of the places in Saratoga on which the major fighting took place.