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About John Burgh
Sir John Burgh was an English military and naval commander and privateer. He took troops from Lincolnshire to serve in the Netherlands in 1585; was subsequently knighted; made governor of Doesburg; and governor of the Briel in early 1588; commanded one of the English regiments which helped Henry IV of France in 1589–90, and was knighted on the field at Ivry in 1590; finally commanded the squadron which captured the great Spanish treasure-ship off the Azores in 1592, and was killed in a duel respecting the plunder.
Everything about John Burgh →- Occupation
- military officer
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England
- Born
- 1562
- Died
- 1594, March 7, 1594