Outlined by posts on the terrain, was a single line of breastworks about 200 yards long and 7 to 8 feet high. It guarded the British right flank and the road to Quaker Springs. It was named for Lt. Col. Heinrich Breymann, whose German troops were stationed here. Benedict Arnold's leg wound, which is received here just as Americans captured the position, is commemorated by the nearby "Boot Monument."
The text of the monument reads:
Erected in 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 Burgoyne's "Great (Western) Redoubt" 7th October 1777. winning for his countrymen the Decisive Battle of the American Revolution and for himself the rank of Major General.
This redoubt was at the far right side of all the British defensive positions. When American forces captured the Breymann Redoubt on October 7, 1777, they could have attacked the rear of all the other British positions. That forced the British to retreat to their own river fortifications overnight. By the next night, October 8, the British had begun a slow retreat north, completely leaving the battlefield.
