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Le général Burgoyne à Saratoga, le 17 8bre 1777, a été pris prisonnier de guerre avec toute son armée   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Le général Burgoyne à Saratoga, le 17 8bre 1777, a été pris prisonnier de guerre avec toute son armée
Description
English: A French satire. A soldier stands behind a turkey-cock holding both ends of a staff which has been put in the bird's beak. The turkey, which represents Burgoyne, wears top-boots and is shackled by his right leg, on which is a garter inscribed "Honi soit", though he was not a knight of the Garter. Other soldiers of the Continental Army stand in a semicircle behind the bird. Beneath the title is etched:


"Extrait d'une lettre du général burgoyne. Et quoi vieux Renard, toi qui avais promis a la patrie de venger ses malheurs et réparer le mien, te voila pris toi même! Cependant, Milord, ne nous decourageons pas; tant quit restera un anglais, les destinées de la grande bretagne ne seront pas desésperées." 1781


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Depicted people Representation of: John Burgoyne
Date 1781
date QS:P571,+1781-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 165 millimetres
Width: 118 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1878,0713.2555
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) This purports to be a letter to Cornwallis on his surrender at York Town, which is the subject of a companion print by the same artist, see BMSat 5858. Collection de Vinck, BMSat 1185.

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