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General Burton
« on: Wednesday 04 November 09 13:35 UTC (UK) »
If you can help please? Smiley

Burton battery (Fort Les Landes in Guernsey French) on Guernsey is a Napoleonic gun platform/battery (now renovated), which held 3 or 4 24-pound cannon and would have protected part of Vazon Bay from French invasion.
The battery was (as far as I know) named after General Napier Christie Burton. Napier Christie Burton was appointed to Guernsey by Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of, King George III, -

Weymouth, August 19, 1796, to his son Frederick, approving the reorganization of forces he was proposing for the Ireland campaign....  I approve of colonels Burton and Monson being placed as brigadiers on the staffs of Guernsey and Jersey as it would not be desirable the commands should [go] to fencible colonels ...

N.B. colonel Monson went to Jersey.

While I have much information on General Napier Christie Burton, and the battery, why was it so named?
There was a Governor Burton in Guernsey, but he was I believe a different person.
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