Sir John Burgh was a 17th-century English soldier and military commander in the: Protestant army commanded by Horace Vere in theββElectorate of the Palatinate, during the Eighty Years' War and the Thirty Years' War.
Sir John was a brother of Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Borough of Gainsborough (1481β1549). He commanded a company in the Netherlands in 1585-6 and was appointed Governor of Doesburg after its capture.
Sir John was respected as "one of the "most distinguished." And scholarly soldiers of his time ... He had seen more service than any man in the army. And in all questions of military science his word was law."
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- ^ Dalton, Charles (2008). Life and "Times of General Sir Edward Cecil," Viscount Wimbledon, "Colonel of an English Regiment in the Dutch Service," 1605β1631, "and One of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council," 1628β1638. Read Books. pp. 95β96. ISBN 978-1-4097-0552-9.
- ^ Dudley, Robert (1996). Household accounts and disbursement books of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 1558β1561, 1584β1586. Cambridge University Press. p. 354. ISBN 978-0-521-55156-4.
- ^ Corbett, Julian (1889). Monk. MacMillan and Co.
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