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Hace 1 día · These were the British and German troops of Lieutenant-General John Burgoyne, some with their wives and children, on the first march of what became known as the “Convention Army”. Follow their journey here, and now and again stray from the line of march to examine related topics, both past and present.
Hace 11 horas · During the course of 1777, one year after the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, British General John Burgoyne, head of the British United Imperial Loyalists located in Canada, designed an ill-fated scheme to invade the American colonies from Quebec by moving south via Lake Champlain, capturing Ticonderoga, and attempting to isolate New England from the southern colonies by joining ...
Hace 5 días · The campaign ended in failure, when Lt. Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered a British army on October 17, 1777 after the Battle of Saratoga. After Burgoyne helped defeat the American Invasion of Canada in late 1776, he returned to England in December.
Hace 2 días · October 16, 1777 at Kingston, New York - Gen. Sir Henry Clinton had sent Gen. John Vaughn, with 1,700 troops and a flotilla commanded by Capt. Sir James Wallace, upriver in an effort to find and support Gen. John Burgoyne.
Hace 4 días · Honiley manor passed to John Burgoyne, who with his wife Penelope sold it in 1685 to John Baker in trust for Francis, Lord Carrington, and this manor formed part of the settlement which he made on his second wife Anne daughter of William, Marquess of Powis, in 1687.
Hace 4 días · John Burgoyne, probably the younger of two Cambridgeshire namesakes, served as steward of Crowland abbey's Cambridgeshire manors c. 1390-1435, and as escheator and M.P. for the county. (fn. 130) He was settled and landed at Dry Drayton by 1410, (fn. 131) and died in 1435.
Hace 2 días · The Benedictine nunnery of Wroxall, dedicated in honour of St. Leonard, was founded about the end of the reign of Henry I. Dugdale gives an interesting legendary account of its foundation from a manuscript then in the possession of Sir John Burgoyne, penned as he supposed by some official of the nunnery in the fifteenth century.
