Burgoyne Bay

Burgoyne Bay (48˚48'00" 123˚32'00" W side of Saltspring I, Gulf Is). Cdr Hugh Talbot Burgoyne, VC (1833–70), born at Dublin, was an officer aboard HMS Ganges, flagship of Rear Adm Robert Baynes, under Capt John Fulford, and served on the BC coast, 1857–60. He was the son of Field Marshal Sir John Fox Burgoyne, a prominent officer in the 1808–14 Peninsular War. Burgoyne won his VC during the Crimean War when, in 1855, under perilous conditions, he and two other men landed and managed to...

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