Le général Burgoyne à Saratoga, le 17 8bre 1777, a été pris prisonnier de guerre avec toute son armée (BM 1878,0713.2555)

A French satire. A soldier stands behind a turkey-cock holding both ends of a staff which has been put in the bird's beak. The turkey, which represents Burgoyne, wears top-boots and is shackled by his right leg, on which is a garter inscribed "Honi soit", though he was not a knight of the Garter. Other soldiers of the Continental Army stand in a semicircle behind the bird. Beneath the title is etched:

"Extrait d'une lettre du général burgoyne. Et quoi vieux Renard, toi qui avais promis a la patrie de venger ses malheurs et réparer le mien, te voila pris toi même! Cependant, Milord, ne nous decourageons pas; tant quit restera un anglais, les destinées de la grande bretagne ne seront pas desésperées." 1781

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