General Burgoyne in Canada and America by Michael Glover 1st ed 1976

Description: Dilettante, playwright and coutier, lover, Member of Parliament, Burgoyne was lampooned by the rugged and rustic Americans as "Gentleman Johnny" - significantly a term of derision. His good looks, cultivation, social graces, high connections, his dislike of gloomy American winters, his annual returns to the London season, which he regaled with his urbane Sheridan-type comedies, did not endear him to the colonists. Burgoyne was one of the few British generals chosen on merit and flexible enough to fight a winning war. Although the British government made him a scapegoat for the loss of British colonies, he was a remarkable military innovator. He was also a brilliant negotiator; as he demonstrated in his "surrender with honour"at Saratoga, a "gentleman's agreement" which the colonists betrayed. A romantic character, who eloped with the daughter of the Earl of Derby and lived happily with her for twenty-five years, a whig member of the Abolitionists Charles James Fox and father of several illegitimate children.

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