Note 873 — Chapter IV · (continued 2)

Cf. Bancroft's character of Burgoyne, in his orig. ed., vii. 245. Fonblanque (p. 5) charges Bancroft with coarseness in speaking of alleged but unfounded statements of Burgoyne's shame of birth. A certain swagger about the man laid Burgoyne open to the stinging burlesques of the small writers of the day. Cf. The Lamentations of Gen. Burgoyne (Sabin, iii. 9,262); Calendrier de Philadelphie, 1779 (Ibid. xiv. 61, 511), Moore's Songs and Ballads of the Rev. (176, 185, 189); Stone, Campaign of Burgoyne (App. xvi.).