1. Later in life, he changed his surname to Burleigh and became a celebrated war correspondent for London's The Daily Telegraph.
11 Facts About Bennet Burleigh
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Bennet Burleigh took part in a raid on Lake Erie in September 1864 led by John Yates Beall.
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Bennet Burleigh returned to Guelph but was later captured and extradited to the United States.
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In 1881, Bennet Burleigh was hired by the London Telegraph to cover the war in Sudan.
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Bennet Burleigh was a correspondent for the Central News Agency during the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882.
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Bennet Burleigh was the first to report the failure of the Gordon relief expedition, which led to the slaughter of the Khartoum garrison.
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Bennet Burleigh covered the Boer War and the Russo-Japanese War.
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Bennet Burleigh authored several books on his experiences reporting on conflict.
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Bennet Burleigh ran unsuccessfully several times for Glasgow seats in the British parliament.
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Bennet Burleigh died in Bexhill on June 17,1914 and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery.
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Bennet Burleigh is thought by some to be a model for the correspondent Gilbert Torpenhow in Rudyard Kipling's The Light That Failed.