Schuyler, << SKY luhr, >> Philip John (1733-1804), was an American soldier and statesman. At the start of the Revolutionary War in 1775, he was a delegate to the Continental Congress. After the battle of Bunker Hill, he was made a major general in the Continental Army.
In 1777, British forces under General John Burgoyne advanced from Canada into New York. Schuyler’s troops delayed the British by destroying bridges and felling trees across the road. This delay contributed to Burgoyne’s surrender, which took place at Saratoga. From 1789 to 1791 and in 1797 and 1798, Schuyler served as a U.S. senator from New York. He was born on Nov. 11, 1733, in Albany, New York. He died on Nov. 18, 1804.
