Sir John Burgh was a 17th-century English

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and military commander in the Protestant army commanded by

Horace Vere Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury (1565 – 2 May 1635) (also ''Horatio Vere'' or ''Horatio de Vere'') was an English military leader during the Eighty Years' War and the Thirty Years' War, a brother of Francis Vere. He was sent to the ...

in the

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, during the Eighty Years' War and the

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. Sir John was a brother of Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Borough of Gainsborough (1481–1549). He commanded a company in the Netherlands in 1585-6 and was appointed Governor of

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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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Zedlers Universallexicon, vol.47, p. 211

English military personnel of the Eighty Years' War English army officers Year of birth missing Year of death missing 17th-century soldiers English people of the Thirty Years' War {{England-mil-bio-stub