John Fox Burgoyne

Sir John Fox Burgoyne GCB (* July 24, 1782 in London, † October 7, 1871 in Kensington ) was a British field marshal.

Life

John Fox Burgoyne was born as the son of General John Burgoyne and entered 1798 as a second lieutenant ( Secondeleutnant ) in the engineer corps of the British Army. He participated in the battles against Napoleon Bonaparte and made from 1809 to the campaigns on the Iberian Peninsula under the Duke of Wellington. Wellington put him in front of Burgos and later in front of San Sebastián directing the siege actions. In America, he fought with and was here involved in the unsuccessful attacks against New Orleans as a lieutenant colonel and chief of the Corps of Engineers (8 January 1815).

After Burgoyne had accompanied the 1826 Army under General Clinton to Portugal, he was appointed in 1831 as Colonel Director of the buildings and public works in Ireland. In 1838 he was promoted to Major General and was responsible for the General Inspectorate of the fortifications of the country since 1845. Through his famous memoir he gave impetus to the attachment of the British coasts.

During the famine in Ireland from 1846 to 1847 Burgoyne led the action to alleviate the misery. In 1851 he was promoted to lieutenant general. Before the outbreak of the Crimean War, he went to Constantinople, Opel, to provide for the attachment of the Turkish capital and the Dardanelles. In the operations against Sevastopol he led the bombardment of Fort Malakoff. In 1855 he returned to England and in 1856 raised to the baronet. 1865 one made him commandant of the Tower of London and 1868 for Field Marshal.

With 89 years John Fox Burgoyne died on October 7, 1871 in London and found his last resting place in the Brompton Cemetery ( Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea).

Works

• Military opinions. London ( 1859)
• Treatise on the blasting and quarring of Stone. London 1852.