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Definition of Burgoyne
1. Noun. British general in the American Revolution who captured Fort Ticonderoga but lost the battle of Saratoga in 1777 (1722-1792).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burgoyne
Literary usage of Burgoyne
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1886)
"He died at his mother's residence in Oxford Street, London, on 11 Aug. 1817.
Shortly before his death Burgoyne was the object of a curious and vexatious ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"As Burgoyne advanced, recruits kept pouring into the enemy's force from the ...
To secure his line of march, Burgoyne threw out two strong flanking bodies, ..."
3. The Struggle for American Independence by Sydney George Fisher (1908)
"LEL HOWE'S DEFENCE OF HIS ABANDONMENT OF Burgoyne Burgoyne having taken Ticonderoga,
... On the 23d of July when Burgoyne, having brought up his tents and ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1780)
"AL Burgoyne here (to ufe the words of one of hii ANSWERERS) recapitulates ...
A Letter to General Burgoyne, on his Letter to his Con- ..."
5. The American Revolution by Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1899)
"Burgoyne now did his best to divert the monotony of the siege, and to show the
... Burgoyne contributed a prologue, spoken by a very young nobleman who had ..."
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