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Hace 3 días · 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 4 días · 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 5 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 5 días · Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry IV, Entries 502-549. 502. JOHN SPILMAN. Writ 12 Feb. 1409. WILTSHIRE. Inquisition. Kinwardstone. 11 April. He held in his demesne as of fee: ‘La Purye’ and Witcombe, 1 messuage and 4 virgates, of William Esturmy, knight, of the manor of Cowesfield by knight service, annual value 40s.
Hace 1 día · In 1774, John Burgoyne proclaimed in the prologue to The Maid of the Oaks that— "St. George's Fields, with taste and fashion struck, Display Acadia at the Dog and Duck." An advertisement which appeared in 1773 is typical of many — "St. George's Spaw, Dog and Duck, St. George's Fields.
Hace 3 días · William Howe, Maj. Gen. John Burgoyne, and Maj. Gen. George Clinton also arrived about the same time. Lt. Gen. Thomas Gage, thus reinforced, prepared for acting with more decision. Gage met with his war council to decide how best to control the harbor and retain access to the sea.
Hace 5 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.
