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John Burgoyne, né à Sutton dans le Bedfordshire le 24 février 1722 et mort dans le quartier Mayfair à Londres le 4 août 1792, est un général britannique. Il est battu par les Américains et se voit contraint en 1777 à signer la capitulation de Saratoga , qui décide la France à s'unir aux États-Unis pour assurer leur indépendance.
On 26 May he delivered an oration in Parliament, 36 defending his conduct and demanding a parliamentary inquiry. This was refused, and on 28 May Burgoyne came out into open Opposition. ‘The salvation of the country depends upon the confidence of the people in some part of the government’, he said. 37 ‘The ministry have it not; the whole ...
After seven years in financial exile Burgoyne had mastered the French language and literature. His father-in-law had also come to see family in a different light and worked to get John a captaincy in the 11th Dragoons. In 1758, Burgoyne trade that for a commission as a captain and Lt. Col. in the Coldstream Guard.
Há 2 dias · John Burgoyne. John Burgoyne, army officer, politician and author, was baptised at St Margaret's Church Westminster on 5th February 1723, as the son of Captain John Burgoyne and Anna Maria (Burneston). It was however rumoured that his real father was Robert, Lord Bingley. John was educated at Westminster School and joined the army in 1737.
In 1777 Gen. John Burgoyne, who had been with the British force coming from Canada in '76, proposed the plan be tried again, submitting "Thoughts for Conducting the War on the Side of Canada," this time with himself in command. This paper was his attempt to strengthen the existing New York strategy and was soon approved by Lord Germain.
26 de mai. de 2022 · February 24, 1722–June 4, 1792. John Burgoyne was a General in the British army during the American Revolutionary War. He is most well-known for leading a failed invasion of New England in 1777. General John Burgoyne led the British out of Canada and into New England in 1777 where the American forces stopped him and defeated him at Saratoga.
In addition to being a general in the British military, John Burgoyne was an accomplished playwright and poet. Here is an example of his work: Burgoyne, John. The Dramatic and Poetical Works of the Late Lieut. Gen. J. Burgoyne to Which Is Prefixed Memoirs of the Author Embellished with Copper-Plates. 2 vols. London: C. Wittingham, 1807.
