This article is about the American Revolutionary War battle in upstate New York. For the 1744 Siege of Fort Anne see Siege of Annapolis Royal (1744). Fort Anne was a stockade style fort in Washington County, New York. The modern town and village adopted the name, omitting the e. The Battle of Fort Anne, fought on July 8, 1777, was an engagement between Continental Army forces in retreat from Fort Ticonderoga and forward elements of John Burgoyne's much larger British army that had driven them from Ticonderoga, early in the Saratoga campaign of the American Revolutionary War.