John Burgh | |
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Born | 1561/2 |
Died | 1594 (aged about 32) |
Buried | St. Andrew's Chapel, Westminster Abbey |
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Rank | Captain |
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Sir John Burgh (1562–1594) 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.