BURGOYNE JOHN Autograph Letter Signed J Burgoyne as Commande

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BURGOYNE, JOHN. Autograph Letter Signed, "J: Burgoyne," as Commander-in-Chief of Ireland, to Charles Townshend, the Joint Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, concerning new troops for the Ireland crisis. 3 pages, 4to; date smudged, otherwise clean and bright. Kilmainham [Ireland], 17 October 1782

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General Burgoyne, having surrendered his army to the Americans at Saratoga in 1777, was by this point the somewhat disgraced leader of the British troops in Ireland. Ireland was in a state of turmoil, with the Irish Volunteers militia pressing for liberalization. Burgoyne here advises in this letter marked "Private" against "the experiment of . . . any new corps to be levied in Ireland at this crisis, not that it would be accepted with reluctance by the violent opponents of the provincials but that it would disconnect & damp the activity of their friends."