To capture entirely: from the taking of General Burgoyne at Saratoga.
1779. The enemies to Government boast that [Prevost has been attacked on James Island], and as they say—Burgoyned.—Thomas Hutchinson, ‘Diary,’ Aug. 10. (Italics in the original.)
1780. Whenever the British army shall attempt to penetrate far into the country, the regular American army will be joined by such reinforcements from the militia, as will ruin the British force.—By desertions, by fatigue, by sickness, and by the sword, in occasional skirmishes, their numbers will be wasted, and the miserable remains of them Burgoyned.—John Adams (from Amsterdam) to Mr. Calkoen, Oct. 7.
1790. The Duke of York Cornwallis’d and Burgoyn’d in Holland.—Heading in Farmer’s Register, Greensburg, Pa., Dec. 28.
1807.
| Brag if you please, but I’ll be shot | |
| If you’ll Burgoyne a Bernadott’; | |
| You’ll find, too late to mend your follies, | |
| That Angereau is not Cornwallis. | |
N.Y. Weekly Inspector, New Year’s Address. |
1820. To Burgoyne an army was, during the war, a favorite phrase in America, to express a complete capture.—Note to John Trumbull’s ‘M‘Fingal,’ p. 162 (Hartford ed.).
