BRITISH SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE.
The death of General Fanahawe, a Scotch soldier of fortune in the Buss_—i service, draws attention to the number of our countrymen who have aided in cementing the great Muscovite Empire, and rendered in byegone years invaluable assistance to the house ot Romanoff. In the Buseian war with Turkey, which broke out in 1768, the great naval victory in tbe Bay of Tcheune was gained by the intrepidity and skill of the Subordinate British officers, Elphinstone, Greig, and Dugdale. That victory was as fatal to the Turkish navy as the battle of Lepanto, under Don John of Austria, or the battle of Navarino under Sir Edward Codrington. Marshal Lacy, whose name occurs so prominently in Buasian history, was an Irishman, and died Governor-General of the Baltic provinces at Biga. Colonel Brown, who was with My*—'' Munich when he forced the lines of Perekof, was Irish also, and died General Count Brown at Biga. General Keith, second in command under Munich, was a Scotchman ; General Innea, who distinguiahed *»»«»«>■> at the capture of Otchakow, was likewise Scotch, as well as Colonel Johnston, who fought under Lacy, and General Leslie, who was cutoff in the Steppe, with his entire party, by the Tartars. Most of these gentlemen had either been "out in the 15," or, as Jacobites, uief-ired being -broad to Irving under the Hanoverian dynasty. In the first annexation of the Crimea a prominent part was
-la-'rt—;-birfle»iiral«a.tw_iw-;_ son icf the Viscount BalpiMmjvfaße adherence to thaStuarts compelled ham to quit Sootlandi Priestman, was English, and read the burial service \at the grave of Howard ; while the Greigs ; have now for several generations furnished officers of distinction for the Russian service. These are only instances which could, no doubt, be easily multiplied, while other countries, notably Turkey, Spain, and Austria, have also some notable examples ot British officers who have risen to distinction in their service.— Broad Arrow.
BRITISH SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE.
Press, Volume XLIII, Issue 6545, 14 September 1886, Page 3
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