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Aleksey Greig. Aleksey Samuilovich Greig ( Russian: Алексе́й Самуи́лович Грейг) (6 September 1775 – 18 January 1845), born into the noble Greig family, was an admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy. Born in Kronstadt, he was the son of Admiral Samuel Greig (1735–1788, then Governor of Kronstadt), brother-in ...
Aleksey Samuilovich Greig (en ruso: Алексей Самуилович Грейг) (6 de septiembre de 1775 - 18 de enero de 1845), nacido en la noble familia Greig , fue un almirante de la Armada Imperial Rusa . Nacido en Kronstadt , era hijo del almirante Samuel Greig (1735-1788, entonces gobernador de Kronstadt), cuñado de Mary Somerville y padre del general Samuil Greig (1827-1887 ...
A finales de julio, la Flota del Mar Negro comandada por Aleksey Greig desembarco en las cercanías de Varna. A mediados de agosto, la Guardia Imperial llegó con el zar Nicolás I . El sitio fue puesto bajo mando del general Ménshikov , con unas fuerzas totales de 32.000 hombres y 170 cañones contra los 20.000 soldados de la guarnición de ...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Aleksey Samuilovich Greig ( Russian: Алексе́й Самуи́лович Грейг) (6 September 1775 – 18 January 1845), born into the noble Greig family, was an admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy.
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- The Battle of Chesma
- The Battle of Hogland
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He was born on 30 November 1735 in the burgh of Inverkeithing in Fife. Initially he was a seaman who worked on his father's ships before entering the Royal Navy before 1758 as a master's mate. He was present at naval engagements at the Capture of Gorée (1758), the Battle of Quiberon Bay (1759) and the Battle of Havana (1762). He was promoted to act...
Samuel Greig married Sarah (1752–1793), daughter of Alexander Cook. Their union would give rise to children and grandchildren who later married into the Russian and German nobility. He was father to Alexey Greig, admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy, who would go on to have his own spectacular career in the Russian Navy. Alexey Greig would become a...
When some time after the war broke out between the Russians and the Turks, Captain Greig was sent in 1770 under the command of Count Alexey Orlov and Admiral Grigory Spiridov, with a fleet to the Mediterranean. The Turkish fleet of around 15 ships of the line plus frigates and galleys which they met near Chesma Bay, western Turkey, was much superio...
Admiral Greig was then swept away by the Russo-Swedish War that broke out in the summer of 1788. He fought un inconclusive battle against the Swedish navy during the Battle of Hogland and he then went to the Swedish fortress of Sveaborg, which he put under a blockade. He was however attacked by a violent fever, and having been carried to Reval, die...
In 1864, Greigia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae is named after him, by Eduard August von Regel (a director of the St Petersburg Botanical Garden).Then in 1873, Regel named a species of Tulip after him, Tulipa greigii.Due to Greig once being president of the Russian Horticultural Society.
This article incorporates text from Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen originally edited by Robert Chambers and published by Blackie and Son of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London in 1856. This...Velichko, Konstantin; Novitsky, Vasily; Schwartz, Alexey von; Apushkin, Vladimir; Schoultz, Gustav von (1912). Военная энциклопедия Сытина [Sytin Military Encyclopedia] (in Russian). Vol. VIII: Гим..."Грейг, адмиралы и государственные деятели" . Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary(in Russian). 1906.- Trekh Ierarkhov, Pobeda, Sviatoi Velikomuchenik Isidor
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Aleksey Samuilovich Greig (en ruso: Алексей Самуилович Грейг) (6 de septiembre de 1775 - 18 de enero de 1845), nacido en la noble familia Greig , fue un almirante de la Armada Imperial Rusa . Nacido en Kronstadt , era hijo del almirante Samuel Greig (1735-1788, entonces gobernador de Kronstadt), cuñado de Mary Somerville y padre del general Samuil Greig (1827-1887 ...
16 de nov. de 2018 · Aleksey Greig (1775-1845) Son of Samuel Greig, Aleksey Greig studied at the Royal High School of Edinburgh and on HMS Culloden under Admiral Trowbridge. After serving in the Royal Navy from 1785-1796 he returned to Russia to take part in expeditions against revolutionary France.
