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Excerpt from The Dramatic and Poetical Works of the Late Lieut., Vol. 1: Gen. J. Burgoyne
Among those, no memorial of whose youth te mains, is to be numbered John Burgoyne, a man who rose to no mean celebrity, as a writer, a se nator, and an officer. The time and place of his birth are unknown. Even his parentage is doubt ful. He is said, but upon what authority does not appear, to have been the natural son of Lord Bingley, who died, at an advanced age, in 177 4.
That his education was of the most liberal kind is sufficiently testified by subsequent evidence. It is not improbable, also, that he was either des tined for, or resolved upon, the profession of arms, at a very early period. The dates of his subal tern promotions elude discovery, and are not, perhaps, in themselves of much importance; but.
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