Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir John Fox Burgoyne, 1st Bt NPG Ax14778

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ernest Edwards, published by Alfred William Bennett

The illegitimate son of the similarly-named general who capitulated at Saratoga, New York State, in 1777, this Burgoyne was an officer in the Royal Engineers. As such, he strived to serve Wellington by supervising the building of fortifications, and the destruction of the enemy's. But as the siege and bloody storming of Badajoz, and the failure at Burgos proved (both 1812), there were too few engineers on the British side and very skilful ones on the French. Burgoyne had a long and distinguished career... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.