John Burgoyne was an English soldier, politician and writer. He was born in 1722 and died in 1792. Entering parliament in 1768, he criticised the War Office and foreign policy, and by his political career won favour at court. He led an American expedition, in 1774 and in 1777 was entrusted with the command of a large force which was to pierce the American centre - an operation known as the Burgoyne Campaign -, but which failed through the incapacity of others, and he was obliged to surrender with 6000 men at Saratoga in October 1777, returning to England in 1778, where he was deprived of his command of the 76th Light Dragoons and the governorship of Fort William, but Fox and Sheridan took his part and received his parliamentary support. The failure of his campaign during the American War of Independence made him unpopular back home, and he spent his later years writing comedy plays.
Sir John Fox Burgoyne was an English soldier. The son of John Burgoyne, he was born in 1782 and died in 1871. He entered the Royal Engineers and served in Malta, Sicily, Egypt, and, with Sir John Moore and the Duke of Wellington, in the Peninsula from 1809 to 1814, and was present at all the sieges generally as first or second in command of the engineers. In 1851 he was made a lieutenant-general, and was chief of the engineering department at Sebastopol until he was recalled in 1855. In the following year he was created a baronet, and in 1868 a field-marshal. Research John Burgoyne
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