General Burgoyne
Character Key Number:
3243
Display Name:
General Burgoyne
Sort Name:
Burgoyne, General John
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
General Burgoyne was a British commander who, as Eula puts it in The Town, "surrendered in the Revolution" after his forces were surrounded by a superior force of colonial soldiers (338). Historically his defeat had important results for the cause of American independence; in the novel, his surrender made V.K. Ratliff's ancestor the family's first American.