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The Scottish Soldiers of Fortune; Their Adventures and Achievements in the Armies of Europe
The Scottish Soldiers of Fortune Their Adventures and Achievements in the Armies of Europe Author:James Grant General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Original Publisher: G. Routledge Subjects: Soldiers of fortune Scotland Fiction / Classics History / General History / Europe / Great Britain Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scot... more »tish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Chapter IV. THE SCOTS IN RUSSIA. -- (Continued) Keith at Stockholm -- His Embassies -- Joins the Prussian Army -- The Gottorp Globe -- General Fermor -- Greig, " the Father of the Russian Navy" -- Admiral Mackenzie, and Sebastopol. A Quarrel having ensned with the Dalecarlians, and when Keith, on duty at Stockholm, had one of his aide- de-camps insulted (as a Danish officer) because he wore a scarlet uniform, Keith received orders to repair to Sweden, at the head of 11,000 men, to support the interests of the Prince of Holstein and act as ambassador. " He suffered much in his passage with the troops under his orders from the cold and storms he had to undergo before he reached the coast of Sweden," says his comrade Manstein ; " and the Russian galleys, which never used to keep the sea latsr than the beginning of September, were obliged to remain on it till the latter end of November." Any other man than Keith would hardly have been able to execute this expedition. He had not only to struggle with the violence of the storms and the piercing cold, but with the officers of the marine, who were often representing the impossibility of proceeding in so severe a season. But Keith, who had served a long time in Spain, where he had seen the galleys keep the sea in all weathers, and who, besides, knew better than any of the officers...« less